Progressive Era

Throughout the last few decades, the national debt has become an issue of dissent for politicians. Conservatives have continuously pushed for a balanced budget. With a stance of lowering taxes, opponents dispute how fiscal conservatives can actually balance the budget, as it is difficult to balance the budget while also lowering taxes. The loss of tax revenue, without economic growth, puts more pressure on the government to fund programs and expands the debt required to fund current government…

CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING FROM WASHINGTON STATE TO OREGON STATE Introduction Tax policy is one strategy that states have to increase their competitiveness. From the 50 states nationwide, only five states do not impose sales tax or have a 0% sales tax rate; they are Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon. Without sales tax, people can buy in these five states without spending extra money on tax and they can have extra ‘money’ for saving or spending on other goods. Compared to some other…

Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage. 2016. Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. ISBN: 9780691165455, 288 pp., $29.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Paul Walker, West Virginia University An incredibly relevant and much debated topic in the political realm is the question of how much of the tax burden should fall on the rich. This question has many important facets from what loopholes exist in the complex US tax…

people” (TurboTax). The money that we give to the government is our taxes and while they are bothersome towards the citizens in America, they do help out our government. In America, there are three kinds of tax systems, which are proportional tax, progressive tax, and regressive tax. Even though the government thinks these three systems are equal with one another, I don’t think so as the three tax systems are an economic flaw because they focus too heavily on classes of people and I believe that…

Application of Utilitarian Approach to Apple’s Tax Avoidance To determine the ethical choice via the Utilitarian approach it is necessary to identify and measure the utility of the decision being made. The ethicality of tax avoidance will be measured by the utility gained or lost by Apple, Ireland, and the United States. The analysis will focus on the years 2009 through 2012, the years Apple’s subsidiary companies paid no corporate income tax to any nation because of the tax discrepancies.…

• Discretionary vs. Nondiscretionary Fiscal Policy 685 A discretionary is the changes made by the government. It could be taxes or spending. Changes can be made every year by the president or congress. When changes are made, it’s done to expand the economy. A nondiscretionary change is when it occurs without the congressional action, so it happens automatically. Within this policy the laws can make the economy slow down or fasten up without making a new law. When it slows down, the government…

Progressive Education Final Common Assignment Progressive education has maintained an important and extensive influence on American schooling. Planting its roots in the late 19th century, “the progressive education movement was an integral part of the early twentieth-century reform impulse directed toward the reconstruction of American democracy through social, as well as cultural, uplift.” (Gavin Loss, Catherine; Loss, Christopher P. 2002) Led by the ideas of forerunners John Locke and…

Chapter 3. The 1980s Trouble On The Oil Front, Then A Short Span Of Economic Improvement … In the 1980s, economic improvement in the US followed President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts and Paul Volcker’s defeat of runaway inflation. These achievements led to a fairly solid economy that lasted for a few years. By 1980, it was generally understood that price controls and minimum wage increases were not the answer. Thus, adjustments were made soon after President Reagan took office in 1981. Reagan…

According to Community Guide rules of evidence, these results constitute strong evidence that raising alcohol excise taxes is an effective strategy for reducing excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. The impact of a potential tax increase is expected to be proportional to its magnitude and to be modified by such factors as disposable income and the demand elasticity for alcohol among various population groups. The reviewed studies provide consistent evidence that higher alcohol prices…

The United States of America is in an exigent need of tax reforms. Peter G. Peterson, in Steering Clear, blazoned forth a myriad of tax reform mechanisms that can conceivably boost the economy and prove to be a catalyst for future economic growth, which include soaking the rich by taxing them heavily, reforming the corporate tax code and implementing a carbon tax, amongst many others. Although all of Peterson’s tax reforms are well-substantiated, the one that aligns the most with his targets of…