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For this weeks assignment you will need to complete both Topic 1 and Topic 2. Within Topic 1 you will only need to choose 1 of the movements to discuss. You only need to create 1 post with both topics included.
Topic 1.
For this assignment I would like you to research and discuss one of the following social movements. What are the basic tenets of the movements? What are the Pro’s and Con’s? How would the successful completion of the movement alter our social structure. And finally, what is your opinion of the movement. Please provide legitimate information concerning the movements rather than a opinion essay. You can provide you opinion of the movement at the end but you will need to utilize sources of information that correctly describe the idea.
Choose 1 of the following.
Fair Tax
School Vouchers
Gun Control/Ownership
Topic 2.
Population Control: Read the article "The Boiling Frog Theory" and provide a response to the author's message concerning the relationship between food availability and population growth
There will be no need to respond to your peers posts unless you want to. Only your original thread will be graded.
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Each topic should be 1 full page of text - Equivalent to 1 page in Word with single spacing (600-700 words). You will need to have a minimum of 1300 words for the total assignment.
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Topic 1: The fair tax movement
The basis of the fair tax social movement is on the complexity of the current federal tax
system and the loopholes allowing corporations and some wealthy individuals to evade tax
payments (Dodge,2016, p522). The fair tax plan will replace the current taxation system with a
flat national sales tax. The system should be able to eliminate the current complexity of remitting
taxes and ensure all people and business are taxed at the point of sale. Consequently, the federal
government will cease to be involved in the collection and calculation of tax rates of some taxes
like the estate, Medicare, social security, personal income, self-employment, capital gains and
alternative minimum taxes. From the new system each pays tax according to the purchases, and
the businesses remit the dues to the federal government. The paycheck of citizens will be taxfree. Furthermore, it involves a prebate that favors the near poverty and poor citizens. The
prebate allows the provision of a money check that offsets any sales tax expenditures.
The fair tax system will have several advantages. First, the approach favors the highincome earners. The current system deducts taxes according to the earning capacities with the
high-income earners paying more. With the fair tax system, the only amount to be taxed is the
expenditure part. Secondly, it is good for the investors due to lack of capital gains tax. The
system will allow investors to maximize inputs and withdraw funds without any penalties.
Furthermore, there will be no double taxation, payroll taxes or investments taxes allowing
businesses to lower costs of production, prices of products and increase the ...
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