An Efficient Way to Finance the Provision of City Services

question 138

Multiple Choice

An efficient way to finance the provision of city services such as street cleaning would be to charge all city residents a lump-sum tax.Such a tax would be:

• A)progressive.
• B)regressive.
• C)proportional.
• D)This question can't be answered without knowing the amount of the tax.

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Definitions:

External Factors

Elements outside an individual or organization that can influence its performance or outcomes.

Internal Attribution

The process of assigning the cause of behavior to something within the individual, such as personality traits or feelings.

Unstable Attribution

The belief that an individual's behavior or performance is due to changeable, situational factors rather than fixed traits.

Actor/observer Bias

The tendency to attribute one's own actions to external factors while attributing others' actions to their personality.