The Four characteristics of a good tax are:
- <em>Equity:</em>:Taxes should be fair, and certain taxes should be given to taxpayers with similar characteristics.Could be on ability to pay. Example: Height tax is unfair.
- <em>Non-Distortionary:::</em>Taxes should not affect economic behavior.For example, they should not be so high that they discourage people from working.
- <em>Certainty::</em>People and firms should know when atax should be paid (and how much).<em> </em>Taxes should be stable, so that people and firms can plan their finances<em>.</em>
- <em>Convenience::</em>It must be simple and easy for people and firms to pay their taxes on a regular basis.<em> </em>For example, income taxes are collected by employers on a monthly basis from the salaries of the workers.
The correct responses:
b. The Colonies have all the power of any other independent nation.
e. The Colonies are declaring independence.
Historical context/detail:
The quoted section comes from the <em>Declaration of Independence </em>(1776), which was written on behalf of the American colonies by Thomas Jeffersons. In preparing the <em>Declaration of Independence,</em> Jefferson and the American patriots were asserting their right to govern themselves and throw off the government of the British monarchy. The American founding fathers got ideas like this from the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke. According to Locke's view, a government's power to govern comes from the consent of the people themselves -- those who are to be governed. Locke argued for the rights of the people to create their own governments according to their own desires and for the sake of protecting their own life, liberty, and property. This also meant the right to change a government if the existing government did not protect those rights.
In the<em> Declaration of Independence,</em> Thomas Jefferson offered a list of "facts to be submitted to a candid world" to demonstrate that the British king had been seeking to establish "an absolute Tyranny over these States" (the colonial states which were declaring their independence). Revolution was justified, in the view taken by the colonists, if it could be shown that the British government was acting in tyrannical ways toward the colonies.
The two years prior to World War I in the region of the Balkans saw the rising of Serbian nationalistic Groups. Later came the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in the Balkan City of Sarajevo, main cause of the war.
On May 3, 1947, Japan's postwar constitution goes into effect. The progressive constitution granted universal suffrage, stripped Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power, stipulated a bill of rights, abolished peerage, and outlawed Japan's right to make war.The Constitution is best known for Article 9, by which Japan renounces its right to wage war; and to a lesser extent, the provision for de jure popular sovereignty in conjunction with the monarchy.
The largest Native American empire was located in South America and belonged to the Inca.
Answer: C
