The taxes which hit the poor hardest are those of local and state governments.
Federal government taxes are progressive, which means that people are taxed based on their income - this means that rich people have to pay higher taxes than poor people. On the other hand, local and state taxes are regressive, meaning the taxes are based according to the service bought - it's the same for the rich and the poor, but given that poor people earn much less money than the rich, they will be affected more direly.
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On December 1, 1955, the modern civil rights movement began when Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Amazon river is longer than the Nile.
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The mountains isolated Greeks from one another, which caused Greek communities to develop their own way of life. Greece is made up of many mountains, isolated valleys, and small islands. This geography prevented the Greeks from building a large empire like that of Egypt or Mesopotamia
