Taxation in the United States

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    finding a tax professional who is knowledgeable is the key to prompt and efficient income tax return filing. What are Tax Rates? The federal government and the Internal Revenue Service dictates that each dollar of certain income you earn is subject to taxation. The percentage taxed on that dollar is determined by your individual tax rate. Tax rates are different for everyone, and will change yearly, depending upon your total annual income and filing status. For tax payers who are unsure of their unique

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    Income Inequality

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    affects the United States, which is income inequality between different sexes and occupations. The researcher asks an interesting research question that affects a high population in the United States. There have been several debates on income inequality, and it is essential to know the contribution of government and state policies to this problem. The increase in the disparity started in the mid-1970s. It is also important to know the reason for the inequalities between different states. This makes

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    legalization of marijuana in the United States is a heated topic. While people may argue whether or not to legalize marijuana nationwide, they cannot argue its effects on crime. It is not just illegal marijuana causing crime in the United States. Legal marijuana also plays a part. When people think about the war on drugs, they think of images like cocaine and other illegal substances. They blindly believe that banning the use of a certain substance or legalizing it in only a few states will solve the issue.

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    office was created and Congress received limitations on its power. Instead, states remained sovereign, forming only a “league of friendship” under the Articles. The states having more power than Congress lead to many failures and problems. For example, Congress could only request states to pay taxes, necessary to pay off the Revolutionary War debts, and run the confederate government. Requesting the war-debt ridden states to help pay national taxes was not warmly accepted. Over the six year life of

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    mortality, increased rates of chronic diseases and lower quality of life. About 300,000 of deaths in the U.S. are attributable to obesity related factors. Therefore, besides its social and physical costs on the individuals, there are monetary costs. United States spends about $190.2 Billion annually on obesity related illnesses and this makes up more than 20% of all healthcare costs. The Federal Government has worsened the obesity epidemic by subsidizing fast food industry and allowing markets to produce

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    For some time now, the United States economy has been trending in the direction of social injustice. Income inequality is ever expanding, and the primary reason is that those people at the very top of the income distribution are accumulating wealth at rates never seen before. The rich are getting richer to the extent that they are driving a massive wedge between socio-economic classes within the United States, and the impacts are far-reaching. Combating this inequality begins with an examination

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    certain economic ideals that I would change to better the overall economic condition. I would keep trading higher because it is good for the economy, there would need to be an expansion for jobs in order to increase employment, and developing the taxation rate for the rich would also reform the economy. The macroeconomics theory displays the modifications in the economy as a whole. It presents how the infrastructure can change, how unemployment effects inflation, and vice versa. With these certain

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    national government of the United States is the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was approved by the Continental Congress in 1777, it was adopted and written by John Dickinson. However, there was a delay in ratifying the articles by the states. It all came down to property out West. States like Virginia and Massachusetts had claimed numerous land stretching from the East Coast all the way to Pacific Ocean as a part of their colonial charters. States like Maryland and Pennsylvania

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    some editing that covers everyone’s preferences, the document was finally approved by all thirteen colonies. The declaration of independent freed the 13 colonies from the Great Britain, and made the colonies stand as one nation, one country, one United States of America. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson explained that a body of people has a right to change governments if that government becomes unfair and

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    Although the Seven Years War is a large event in history, one can argue that the events created by results of the war concluded to be more significant. The results of the Seven Years War, or the French and Indian War, affected the lives and political state of the British, the colonists, and the Native Americans. The French and Indian War left British victorious but in debt. To begin with, Britain obtained lands from both France and Spain as an outcome of the Treaty of Paris. They gained Florida from

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