Social Considerations Can Be Used to Justify

question 58

Multiple Choice

Social considerations can be used to justify:

• A)Allowance of a credit for child care expenses.
• B)Allowing excess capital losses to be carried over to other years.
• C)Allowing accelerated amortization for the cost of installing pollution control facilities.
• D)Allowing a Federal income tax deduction for state and local sales taxes.
• E)None of the above.

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Definitions:

Personal Happiness

A state of well-being and contentment that comes from personal achievements, relationships, or other personal attributes.

Relative Deprivation

A perceived disadvantage occurring when individuals think they are worse off compared to others in some respect.

Subjective Well-being

The self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people's quality of life.

Adaptation-level Phenomenon

The human tendency to judge new experiences by comparing them to past experiences or to what we've grown accustomed to.