Proportional tax

funding the facility’s needs. Barstow Fire Protection District needs more money so that they can repay the debt, buy more equipment, and reduce the response time. As a solution to this issue, they proposed Measure J, which will increase the current tax by a half of a cent. This money will not be used for increase in salaries of the workers or to help out other cities. It will be used only for Barstow and the fire department’s necessities. I would like to enlighten my audience about this problem…

The Stamp Act, created by England’s parliament, was an act that taxed colonies on newspapers, pamphlets, licenses, and other paper products. The stamp was created to bear revenue stamps but the stamp created anger among many of the colonists. Colonists were justified in their refusal to accept the Stamp Act because the government taxed colonists without the correct representation. The Stamp Act was highly disliked because the English parliament taxed the colonies without the correct…

greater tax advantages, etc. Some of the drawbacks of the trust approach, however, include the time and planning associated with establishing and managing the trust, the required funding and hassle associated with the transferring of ones assets to the trust, as well as creating the potential for unforeseen or unintended tax or legal outcomes associated with complex trust and estate planning. Not to mention, many planners and tax professionals argue that, in many cases, the majority of tax…

The modern tax code that we use in America today is influenced and shaped by some moral behaviors and decisions that were created by our founding fathers in the from the U.S. Constitution. Even though the U.S. tax code is influenced by some moral behaviors, the tax code does not govern based on biblical worldviews because of the separation of church and state. However, since the tax code is certainly influenced by some moral behaviors, there are some connections linked to the tax code that…

and Universities, n.d.) (Transition: Without a doubt, student loan debt is a rising danger to the U.S. economy. Now let’s take a look as to how some countries benefit from having free tuition). Second Main Point: Although free tuition comes at the tax payer’s expense, countries have recent graduates contributing back to the economy at a faster pace than the U.S. Subpoint: Countries like Germany, Finland and Sweden offer free tuition. Yet, their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) income doesn’t…

Ethical Theory and Test Analysis The following section of this study will dissect the two opposing tax systems and analyze them through the lenses of two major ethical theories, Universalism, and Rawls’ Distributive Justice Theory. Both theories will discuss the three ethical questions presented in the beginning of this paper and present which theory most closely aligns to the principles of each theory. Universalism seeks to create a system in which all participants would be willing to see…

authored by Laura Crimaldi was published on November 20, 2011, appearing in the Las Vegas Review- Journal. The article details a scam that some food stamp recipients were taking advantage of. Crimaldi opens the article detailing a scam that has cost tax payers as much as $330 million dollars a year (P. 2). The scam involved small businesses exchanging money for the customer’s food stamps, a federal offense that has resulted in 597 convictions and over $197 million in fines (P. 3). The author…

quarterly federal and state income tax deposits, pays the whole contribution of Social Security and Medicare taxes and purchase his or her own insurance and benefits. Independent contractors also work for more than one employer and have specialized training. Whereas, an employee is told how their job is to be performed and what their schedule will be. In addition, the employer contributes to half of the payment of the employee’s benefits, personal income tax, workers’ compensation, as well as…

The New Deal was intended to relieve the poor and the unemployed, recover the sluggish economy, and reform the financial and agricultural system. The policies of the New Deal relieved the economic crisis and social contradictions. However, not all people approved of the New Deal. Some common people and politicians were against the policies and some put forward some policies to replace the New Deal. Martha Gellhorn, Huey Long, and Herbert Hoover are three people who held a negative attitude…

The party believes that those who utilize private health and the private education system should receive vouchers and tax breaks. In addition, they focus on the goodwill of the people, instead of a public system, which they see as a socialist agenda. However, Democrats want to mirror foreign nations by setting up a national health care system. They want to expand the federal…