Pyuish and Vi Kashia File a 1040 Jointly

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Pyuish and Vi Kashia file a 1040 jointly. Pyuish earned $37,570 and Vi earned $41,230. The Kashias have three children. Both Pyuish and Vi contributed $2,000 to their IRAs. They had $3,129 in medical and dental expenses. They paid $2,670 in real estate taxes, $1,220 in student loan interest, $4,890 in mortgage interest, and made $3,000 in charitable contributions. What is their taxable income?

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Definitions:

Inefficient

refers to the suboptimal allocation or use of resources in a way that does not maximize potential output or outcomes.

Voting Paradox

is a situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C, and C is preferred to A), despite the individual preferences being consistent.

Majority-Rule Voting

A decision-making process where the option that receives more than half of the votes is chosen, commonly used in democratic systems and organizations.

Voting Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the preferences of individual voters are not, leading to a lack of consistent aggregation of individual preferences into a coherent group order.