Sales taxes in the United States

Election day is just around the corner and on November 8, people of the United States of America get to decide if the listed propositions should be passed or not. One proposition in particular is number 55. This proposition is about determining if taxes should be increased for those who make over 250,000 dollars a year. This proposition was first called proposition 30 back in 2012. The reason why they changed this proposition to number 55 is because they want to expand it and revise this…

legalizing it, is that it would be economically beneficial. Jobs would be created, people would be spending their money, money would be invested into stocks, the government would collect taxes from marijuana sales and the list goes on. This can be proven when looking at facts and statistics from Colorado, who was the first state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in November 2012. There are several myths that come with the idea of legalizing marijuana. One of the biggest myths is…

charged for the support of the government. A Tax Inversion is an option or tool that allows a company financially to lower its tax liabilities by obtaining a legal foreign address. One of the highest corporate income tax rate is represented by the United States system. Many companies seek for effective ways to decrease their tax bills without break U.S laws. Obtaining a new legal address abroad, it is a current and favored strategy to lower corporate tax rates. In other words, change a company…

option at this point whether anyone liked it or not. The United States is on their toes trying to figure out the best routes to go to create energy: solar and wind, coal, or nuclear. Solar and wind are found to soon die out and have nothing left to support the United States. Coal is a resource which we are running low on and soon will not be able to find, then we have nuclear which can solve most of our problems without running out. The United States should use nuclear energy, because we can…

California is a dynamic state whose needs are in the eternal realm of changing and adjusting because of the growing population. Correspondingly, every county experiences different problems, and most of those problems require strategic problem solving because there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution. This is the essence of California’s political system. The counties are the legal entities responsible for governing and protecting segments of the population. Whereas, the state is responsible for…

Although The United States had many accomplishes after the Civil War, such as the abolishment of slavery, millions of African Americans still experienced racism that denied them economic, political, and social rights. One major obstacle black Americans faced was sharecropping. Sharecropping was an agricultural system in which landless people farmed on a section of someone else’s land and received a portion of profit from the sale of crops. Sharecroppers were overwhelming black former slaves,…

producer of gas and oil among all states. Texas is also home to the largest oil field in the country, Eagle Ford Formation; it produces over 1 million barrels of oil per day accounting for more than 50% of the state’s oil production. 2. JOB PRODUCTION Around 1.9 million jobs are supported by the oil and gas industry in Texas, which represents 13.9% of the total state’s workforce. 3. TAX PAYMENT Oil and gas interests pay over 10 billion dollars annually in taxes just in Texas. The income tax…

As she prepared herself for this up coming presidential election, former secretary of State, Hillary Clinton defends her boss President Obama’s Immigration reform policy. On the road, Secretary Clinton continues to inform the American people the need for comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. Secretary Clinton believes that by enacting better comprehensive immigration reform policy will also create the pathway to citizenship; such policy will keep families together, and…

according to the United Nations (UN) (Steffens). Legalization of marijuana has been one of the most debated topics in social media in the recent decades. It seems like a discord within the states; some have already approved marijuana use for recreational purposes while others keep waiting for a reform on this unjustified law that keeps marijuana use a crime. Both arguments, in favor and against the legalization of marijuana have been put out there for consideration while the United States…

Undocumented immigrant students are obligated, as are all other students, to attend school until they reach the age mandated by state law. Many people may argue that this should not be the case. Some may prefer that children of illegal immigrants should not be able to receive a public education and should have to pay for the education that they receive. However, these students should not be denied an education because they are not able to provide the proper documents. No matter how you look at…