Microeconomics: Principles Problems & Policies (McGraw-Hill Series in Economics)
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The type of taxation involved in each transaction.
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9. True or false? If the statement is false, explain why: LO4
a. An internally held public debt is like a debt of the left hand owed to the right hand.
b. The Federal Reserve and federal government agencies hold more than half the public debt.
c. As a percentage of GDP, the federal debt held by the public was smaller in 2010 than it was in 1990.
d. As a percentage of GDP, the total U.S. public debt is the highest such debt among the world’s advanced industrial nations.
4. Suppose that there are two households in the economy, A and B, that they face the same wage rate w, and that the government initially uses a proportional income tax according to which each household must pay a fraction t of its labor income as income tax. Assume that given this tax scheme household A chooses to work full time while household B chooses to work part time. Now suppose that the government is interesting in studying the impact of changing the tax system to a progressive tax system where the household work- ing full time would pay a tax rate th >t while the household working part time would pay a rate ti < t.
(a) Draw a graph of the impact of this change on the budget constraint that households face with the two different tax systems.
(b) What would such a change in the tax system imply for the optimal choice of the two households?
Suppose demand and supply are given by: (LO3, LO4)Qx d = 14 − 1/2Px and Qx s = 1/4Px − 1c. How much tax revenue does the government earn with the $12 tax when the new equilibrium quantity is 2 units after tax .
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