economic policy

Build Your Own Tax Policy

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It's easy! Simply answer these questions. The computer will then take your answers and locate a tax policy that corresponds to your answers. Try it and see!

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1. Agree or disagree: Government budgets should always be balanced.
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2. Agree or disagree: Sports stadiums should not be built using money from taxes.
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3. Agree or disagree: You should pay the government based on the value it provides to you.
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4. Agree or disagree: Investors can afford higher taxes.
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5. Agree or disagree: Unions organize in response to threats or dangers.
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6. Agree or disagree: We can learn a lot from examing the tax policies of other countries.
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7. If you could make a $25 billion cut in federal income taxes, which would you choose:
Cut all tax rates slightly
Increase the standard deduction
Cut the capital gains tax rate
increase the earned income credit

8. Agree or disagree: Natural resources are a type of property requiring special treatment.
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9. Agree or disagree: Payroll taxes are regressive.
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10. Agree or disagree: Some profitable corporations deserve government subsidy.
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If you have audio, you might be interested to know about our background music. This was a song sung by the tax rebels and pro-democracy forces in Central Europe during the years 1524-1526. One of the verses of the song comes from an even earlier tax rebellion, in 1381.