Consider a System in Which a Person Earning $10,000 Pays

question 34

Multiple Choice

Consider a system in which a person earning $10,000 pays $1,000 in taxes,a person earning $25,000 pays $2,000,and someone earning $60,000 pays $4,000.This is an example of:

• A)progressive taxation.
• B)proportional taxation.
• C)regressive taxation.
• D)a property tax.
• E)a tax based on the benefits-principle of taxation.

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Definitions:

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that holds a brief photographic image of a scene that has just been observed.

Recency Effect

The improvement in retention of information learned at the end of a task.

Memory

The cognitive process involving the encoding, storing, and retrieving of information.

Forgetting

The processes that prevent information from being retrieved from a memory store.