What you’ll learn to do: define progressive, proportional, and regressive taxes

“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”—Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789

In this section, you will take a closer look at the types of government taxes and examine why they are so certain in our lives.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

The learning activities for this section include:

• Reading: Financing Government
• Reading: Types of Taxes
• Reading: Taxation
• Self Check: Taxation

Take time to review and reflect on each of these activities in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.