A Tax Is a Payment to Support the Cost of Government

question 21

True/False

A tax is a payment to support the cost of government.

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Gettysburg

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The State

An organized political community living under a single system of government, recognized as sovereign or governing over a defined territory and population.

Authoritarian State

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