Answer:
social welfare spending (education, hospitals, housing, schools, etc.).
Explanation:
This quote deals with the problem of the ever increasing cost of national defense versus the welfare of the citizens. The US spends more money on national defense than any other country in the world, around 37% of the total military budget of the world. It also represents 15% of the total federal budget and almost half of all discretionary spending.
That is a lot of money to be distributed among a small number of private firms. Usually Republicans tend to favor a large army, but Democrats never lower their budget either. The largest military contractors are Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon. They are all located in blue states, actually Maryland currently has a Republican governor but both their senators are democrats as well as most of the representatives. Boeing has its headquarters in Washington State and Raytheon in Massachusetts. These aren't blue states, they are indigo states.
But as the military budget increases and the power of military contractors also increases, who will dare to stop them. Military spending is much higher than welfare spending, even if you throw in Medicaid into the equation ($1.6 trillion vs $1 trillion).
The question really is, are guns more important than the well being of our citizens? I guess it depends who you ask.
Answer:
Explanation:
The journal entry is shown below:
Interest expense A/c Dr $3,000
To Interest payable A/c $3,000
(Being interest is recorded)
The computation of the interest expense is shown below:
= Principal × rate of interest × number of months ÷ total number of months in a year
= $125,000 × 6% × (4 months ÷ 12 months)
= $2,500
The four-month is calculated from the September 1 to December 31
A) protecting the country and D) public schools im sure this is the answer
Answer:
C. $11,000
Explanation:
For computational purposes, both the Mortgage interest as well as the miscellaneous itemized deducted qualify as deductions based on the Schedule A which is the regular tax purposes.
However, only Mortgage interest will be allowable itemized deduction because miscellaneous itemized deductions fall under the category of adjustments and as such do not qualify for deductions under the AMT which is the Alternative Minimum Taxable Income.
Based on the explanation, only $11,000 of mortgage interest qualifies.
Answer:
a) Pre-tax cost of debt is 8.45%
b) After tax cost of debt is 5.07%
Explanation:
a) Given:
Debt issue outstanding = $15.5 million
Semi-annual coupon rate = 0.063 / 2 = 0.0315
Assumed par value (FV) = $1,000
Coupon payment (pmt) = 0.0315 × 1000 = $31.5
Current bond price (PV) = 92% of $1,000 = $920
Time period (nper) = 5 × 2 = 10 periods
Calculate semi-annual rate using spreadsheet function =Rate(nper,pmt,PV,FV)
Semi-annual rate = 4.14%
Pmt and FV are negative as they are cash outflows.
YTM = 4.14 × 2 = 8.28%
Effective annual rate = 
= 
= 0.0845 or 8.45%
b) Tax rate is 40%
After tax cost of debt = Pre tax cost of debt × (1 - 0.4)
= 0.0845 × 0.6
= 0.0507 or 5.07%
