Excise taxes

Moot Court Case South Dakota v Dole Petitioners (South Dakota) -Main Arguments: South Dakota allows people 19 or older to be able to purchase beer that has up to 3.2% alcohol The Secretary of Transportation would take away 5% of the state’s highway fundings if the state didn’t make their legal drinking age 21. South Dakota said violates the constitutional limitations on congressional exercise of the spending power and violates the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution…

“Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises to pay debt for the common defense and the general welfare of the United States, but all duties imports and excises uniform throughout the United States.” Congress doesn’t have the power to control taxes. Congress also doesn’t have the power to control commerce laws. The year is 1781 is it okay for Congress to have any power? If you look back in history at the year 1781 the thirteen colonies created the…

Australia has a very strong economy that has seen many highs and lows in the past few decades. The main characteristics for Australia is free market but it still categories as mixed economy system which that is a successful phenomenon, Western market economy where the GDP is high and the rate of poverty is low. Australia is phenomenal and this country is among the first five developed countries of the world. There are four main component of the Australian economic system which had finance,…

Correspondingly, sales taxes are added during purchase and are not usually noticed by the consumer until after the purchase. The mere fact that many states imposed sales tax on sugar drinks in 2010, and health conditions related to sugar consumption is still a rising issues shows that consumers have accepted the taxes. Another solution would be to raise the actual cost of sugar drinks, also known as excise taxes. Excise taxes are “another taxing mechanism that can be used…

In the 1790s an excise tax on spirits angered Pennsylvania farmers lead to the Whiskey Rebellion, over which many Americans differed in opinion. Many groups and people were in favor of the Rebellion feeling that the government’s actions were unfair and an overstep of their boundaries. This included the Republican Party who believed in the federal government having limited power. Other representatives believed that the tax and the rebellion that followed ultimately causes harm to the American…

Strict Interpretation of the Constitution Strict interpretation means that the Constitution must explicitly grant a power or privilege in order for that action to be legal. A loose interpretation doesn’t give any safeguards against government intrusion on the people’s liberty. Strict interpretation is better because it is an approach more likely to get to what the original intent of the Founders of America was. Whereas loose interpretationists can make new laws and invalidate old ones based on…

Federalism is a system of government where territory is controlled by two levels of government. The best examples of federalism are the United States, Canada, and India, but why would they choose this form of government over others? Federalism’s two levels of government are: national and state government. It’s because the national government handles the issues of the entire country, while the smaller political subdivisions, or state government, handle the local concerns of the people, or the…

Federal Government and help pay the debt the government . In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury by George Washington. During 1790 and 1791, Hamilton decided to place a revenue system to customize duties and excise taxes to help pay the debt the government has after the Revolutionary War. A bank, which was used to pay the debt to the Federal Government, was placed to serve as a depository for public funds and began printing paper currency. Hamilton's…

Depending on the circumstance, the burden of tax can fall more on consumers or on producers. In the case of cigarettes, for example, demand is inelastic because cigarettes are an addictive substance and taxes are mainly passed along to consumers in the strain of higher costs. The analysis, or manner, of how the burden of a tax is divided between consumers and producers is called tax incidence. Tax incidence is the mode in which the tax burden is divided…

transformational event in the history of the United States Constitution by which an unregulated direct federal tax on all of the money a person makes in one year was authorized. The amendment reversed the preceding Constitutional tax structure prohibiting such taxes under which the American people had grown to be the freest and most optimistic people in the history of the world who were all in favor of a much different structure under which the scandal ridden and deeply distrusted big wigs of…