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Match the correct answers below.
1


A branch of economics and political science that studies the way that governments make decisions.

2


States that the amount of taxes people pay should relate to their income or wealth.

3


Taxes, expenditures, transfer payments, and regulations.

4


A tax that causes higher-income individuals to pay a higher percentage of their income as tax than lower-income individuals.

5


A tax that takes a larger fraction of income in taxes from lower-income individuals from higher-income individuals.

6


Has increase since 1900 in the United States.

7


The extra tax that is paid per dollar of additional income.

8


Holds that individuals should be taxed in proportion to the benefit they receive from government programs.

9


Concerns the tax treatment of people with different levels of income.

10


A tax that makes all taxpayers pay exactly the same proportion of their income.

11


States that those who are essentially equal should be taxed equally.

12


One function of government in a free market economy.

13


The way the tax burden ultimately is borne by consumers and producers.

14


Total taxes divided by total income.

15


Those taxes that are levied upon individuals or firms.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 15
A)Regressive tax
B)Marginal tax rate
C)Improve economic efficiency
D)Ability-to-pay principle
E)Benefit principle
F)Tax incidence
G)Direct taxes
H)Vertical equity
I)Government's share of the economy
J)Public choice theory
K)Tools of government
L)Horizontal equity
M)Proportional tax
N)Progressive tax
O)Effective tax rate





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