A decision typically has costs/benefits.the oportunity benefit is what you gain from taking an opportunity
On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, workers drove a spike that linked two rail lines, one snaking from the East, the other from California, completing America's first transcontinental railroad. This event helped launch an era of economic development that would transform a Jeffersonian society of yeoman farmers into an industrial powerhouse.
Wealthy citizens. Progressive taxes are basically income tax. The less income you generate the less you have to pay with taxes. The more income you make, the more you have to pay in taxes.