Brooke+and+Shelby

 **Taxing and Spending- 7.2 and 23.4** **189-192 & 656-658 ** **Brooke Jenzano & Shelby Troy **

** //Students will understand who is involved in tax making and the process in which they go through,// ** ** //as well as what role the citizens take in taxing and spending.// **

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Brooke's Link This link to Economicae: An Encyclopedia of Economics, gives excessive detail on the concept of taxing and spending as a whole. This site gives more than enough vocabulary and breaks the words down for easy understanding. This site focuses mostly on how taxes reflect citizens rather than the process of tax making in Congress. The article hits points like progressive, proportional, and regressive taxes, the benefit principle, equity, the ability-to-pay principle. Some of these listed are more than what is in the two sections given, but it elaborates enough in the descriptions to connect them with the vocabulary that was included in these sections. All in all this is any easy to ready article about taxing and spending. It has a simple and direct way of looking at a quite complicated subject, making it a quick and flawless way to learn. This is a great site that fit perfectly into our sections for taxing and spending.

Shelby's Link This link is to an Oxford University paper about taxing and spending, and the overall structure of the entire process. This is a valuable source of information to have, due to the amount of facts it contains. Not only does this source provide an abundance of information but it gives visual examples such as graphs, and charts. This source is very reliable and also fairly recent which, therefore, provides the reader with current facts about nationwide and statewide taxation. Along with the explanation of the basics of taxing, this paper also explains the step by step process in which taxes are created. This Oxford University paper is a useful link and added a lot to the presentation overall, with it's statistics and step by step explanations. This is written in a simple and easy to understand way, that was easy to interpret, and convert into another explanation for the class. Overall, this was a very useful and informative article, and was the best fit into the taxing and spending topic in this project.

** Activity : These are most of excise taxes in the U.S.:**
 * = Cigarettes  ||=  Cigars  ||
 * = Alcohol  ||=  Wine  ||
 * = Hard Cider  ||=  Beer  ||
 * = Firearms  ||=  Tanning Salons  ||
 * = Telephone Calls  ||=  Coal  ||
 * = Gasoline (car)  ||=  Heavy Trucks/tires  ||
 * = Vaccines  ||=  Water Transportation  ||
 * = Oil  ||=  Gasoline (boat)  ||
 * = Airports  ||=  Airline Ticket  ||
 * = Jet Fuel  ||=  Leaking storage tanks  ||

1) What would you consider to be a luxury and not a luxury when it comes to excise taxes? 2) Get rid of two taxes that you believe do not believe belong on the list. Why did you choose those two? 3) Are there any other luxuries that are not on the list that you believe should be on the list? Why?

Reflection Questions 1) What is the main purpose of a tax and how do taxes both hurt and help our country? 2) What is appropriation and what is needed for congress to appropriate money? 3) Name three types of taxes and what these taxes are focused upon.

Reflection Question Answers

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