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- Fairness in Taxes: How Taxes Affect Us (.html)
- Info Sheet: Families Feel the Effect of Taxes (.pdf)
- Worksheet: Comparing Regressive, Progressive, and Proportional Taxes (.pdf)
- Worksheet Solutions: Comparing Regressive, Progressive, and Proportional Taxes (.pdf)
- Student Lesson: How Taxes Affect Us (.pdf)
- Activity 1: Fairness and Taxes (.html)
- Activity 2: Tax Freedom Days (.html)
- Activity 3: Tax Your Memory (.html)
- Assessment: How Taxes Affect Us (.html)
- Assessment Solutions: How Taxes Affect Us (.html)
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Students are able to compare the effects of the following, using income as a measure of ability to pay: a progressive tax, a regressive tas, and a proportional tax. They explain how a mixture of regressive and progressive taxes could combine to make our overall tax system roughly proportional.
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