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Chapter 12 - The Design of the Tax System
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President Bill Clinton
________ signed a law that raised marginal tax rates on rich Americans to around 40 %.
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Gross Domestic Product
The ________ (GDP) measures the total income in the economy.
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Regressive
________: a tax for which high- income taxpayers pay a smaller fraction of their income than do low- income taxpayers.
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Taxpayers
________ have the ability to put some of their income into special savings accounts.
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Progressive
________: a tax for which high- income taxpayers pay a larger fraction of their income than do low- income taxpayers.
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deadweight losses
While taxes typically cause ________, the tax system should be efficient and equitable.
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Profit
________ is the amount a corporation receives for goods or services it sells.
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Proportional
________: a tax for which high- income taxpayers pay the same fraction of income.
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Taxes
________ on gas are sometimes justified by the benefits principle.
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Tax systems
________ require equity and efficiency.
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Receipts
________ showed over $ 2.5 trillion in paid taxes in 2017.
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Excise taxes
________ are taxes on specific goods.
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Benefits principle
________: the idea that people should pay taxes based on the benefits they receive from government services.
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Vertical equity
________: the idea that taxpayers with a greater ability to pay taxes should pay larger amounts.
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Horizontal equity
________: the idea that taxpayers with similar abilities to pay taxes should pay the same amount.
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