Sales taxes in the United States

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    Assignment-Taxes Why do the people of the United States have to pay taxes? Taxes have been a part of history since the start of the first civilizations. There are many different aspects of having to pay taxes, some negative and some positive, and there are some pretty neat facts too! Many people think taxes are outrageous, unnecessary, and torturous, while loads of people consider them to be used for personal protection and benefits to society. First of all, the people pay taxes…

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    controversial statements that has aroused the American people with its ability to grant the government to control your financial state and also disable you to do certain things when they need money to use for no good reason. Do you want your money in someone else 's hands? Or do you want your own money to be able to control? The money that is given to the government through taxes is supposed to be used to support foreign affairs and have the federal government assemble a decent society…

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    Tax Reform

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    Tax reform involves changing the manner in which taxes are collected by the government to improve the economic and social benefits of the system and the tax administration process. There are different ways in which tax reform can be achieved, for instance, having a more simplified tax system that is more accountable, making the tax system less progressive or more progressive, and by reducing the level of taxation on all individuals (OECD 1). Most governments have reformed their tax systems,…

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    The tampon tax is a sales tax on tampons and other feminine products. Every month from ages 12 to about 50 us woman need these products and on average a package of tampons cost 7-10 dollars plus tax. According to BBC news…

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    their own country to come to America, but for whatever that reason is;people who migrate to America seem to be the target of political bashing. The 2016 election is an excellent example of this, one of the front runner to be the president of the United States has said that Mexico is sending it’s rapist and want to build a wall between the two countries, he has called Syrian refugees who are being killed in their own country,terrorist. I want to understand why there's so much bad stigma on this…

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    as the United States, it creates incomes that are small and large. Having an unequal amount of large or low incomes is called income inequality. Income inequality has become a major problem in the United States, increasing 24% from 1968 to 2012” (Cochran). The gap between the rich and the poor is growing at an ever increasing rate. In the United States the gap is measured by relative poverty, or “being below one-half the nations income” (Cochran). In most recent figures, “17.3 of the United…

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    profitability improve is as follows: NI= 0.08(#of Sales) – 0.09(CGS)-3.84(State Tax). As of 2014 the company’s Net income is 129.094 (in millions), to improve the company the Net profit margin within two years the net income should at least reach 401 million with approximately 2268 million in sales to reach a 17.7% profit margin. To increase sales from the company average sale of 1727.7684 to 2268 million the company needs to raise the…

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    of the huge conflicts that United States had to face after American Revolution. George Washington and many more people from federal government thought that the Whiskey Rebellion was the single most significant event in the history of the United States in the 1790s. This event caused many problems and issues for the people and government of the United States, because of the disagreement they had about the tax on whiskey. After the Revolutionary war, the United States had borrowed money to…

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    believe that this is just a harmful substance with no benefits. However, there are many people, including scientist that believe that the drug can provide many medical benefits along with economic benefits. The legalization of marijuana in the United States would have economic and societal benefits that far outweigh the harmfulness of the drug. Marijuana is a very dangerous substance. If abused, it kills thousands every year. Marijuana is the most common drug used in the world because it is…

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    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 individual state. It leaves each of the governments with individual powers…

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