Yes. The U.S. tax system has a built-in stabilizers.
These built-in stabilizers are called automatic stabilizers. Automatic stabilizers are defined as the features of tax and transfer system that lends stability of the economy without direct intervention from the policy makers.
These stabilizers tempers the economy when it overheats and provides economic stimulus when it slumps.
When: Automatic Stabilizers:
Incomes are high <span>tax liabilities rise and eligibility for government benefits falls
Incomes are low </span><span>tax liabilities drop and more families become eligible for government transfer programs (food stamps, unemployment insurance)</span>
<span>Annual gross income is the amount of money you make BEFORE taxes. Your adjusted gross income is how much money you make before taxes, MINUS anything you can deduct. You can deduct many things, like student loan interest payments and alimony. So, you would have an adjustment if you paid for student loans this year. If your gross income (not adjusted) is $20,000 and you paid $1000 on student loan interest, your adjusted gross income is $19000. The IRS will then see your income as only $19000 instead of $20,000 and will tax you on that lower amount.</span>
Answer:
a) Marginal cost of waiting is greater than the marginal benefit of being served
Explanation:
For an economic perspective, customer leave a fast food restaurant as they find the marginal cost of waiting is higher than the cost of marginal benefit of being served at restaurant.
Marginal cost: In economics, it is a cost that is incurred for an additional unit of benefit received out of certain action or activity.
Marginal benefit: It is a benefit received for an additional unit of cost incurred during the activity taken place.
Therefore, customer have done analysis on the benefit of waiting in a queue for getting served at restaurant, which he found that marginal cost is greater than the marginal benefit of being served.
