Quizzer Page for: The Politics of Taxation - Who Gets Taxed

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1.  What are several of the factors which have focused attention on the justice of how government decides how the money it requires will be raised?


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2.  What are some of the economic similarities between taxes and charity as cited in the lecture? 
 

3.    What is the "benefit" theory?

 

4. How is it that drafted soldiers are under-paid and why does this amount to a tax on them?  
 

5.  Define "vertical equity": "horizontal equity"? 



6. What is  progressive taxation? Give an example.



7. What is the most telling argument against the fairness of regressive taxation? 

8.  How can taxes be used to redistribute wealth?.

9.  Should the government use taxation to further social agendas? Must it do so as a natural by-product  of the taxation process?

10.  How can attempts to eliminate horizontal tax inequities result in more inequity?

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