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  • 1reduce — 01. The government hopes that by raising taxes on cigarettes, it will be able to [reduce] the number of teenagers who start smoking. 02. Criminologists believe that the [reduction] in violent crime in this country is due to the fact that our… …

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  • 2reduce — verb (reduced; reducing) Etymology: Middle English, to lead back, from Latin reducere, from re + ducere to lead more at tow Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to draw together or cause to converge ; consolidate < re …

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  • 3reduce — /rɪ dju:s/ verb 1. to make something smaller or lower ● We must reduce expenditure if we want to stay in business. ● They have reduced prices in all departments. ● We were expecting the government to reduce taxes not to increase them. ● We have&#8230; …

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  • 4Induced Taxes — Within the context of macroeconomics and fiscal policy, a type of tax that changes when an economy s real gross domestic product (GDP) changes. The relationship between induced taxes and GDP is positive; as real GDP rises, taxes will also rise,&#8230; …

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  • 5Sales taxes in the United States — are a tax added onto the price of goods or services that are purchased in the United States. A sales tax is a tax on consumption, which is displayed as a percentage of the sale price. Sales taxes are assessed by every state except Alaska,&#8230; …

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  • 6Read my lips: no new taxes — Bush delivering the famous line at the 1988 convention Read my lips: no new taxes is a now famous phrase spoken by then presidential candidate George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he accepted the nomination on August 18 …

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  • 7Income taxes in Canada — constitute the majority of the annual revenues of the Government of Canada, and of the governments of the Provinces of Canada. In the last fiscal year, the government collected roughly three times more personal income taxes than it did corporate&#8230; …

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  • 8Effect of taxes and subsidies on price — Taxes and subsidies have the effect of shifting the quantity and price of goods. Tax impact A marginal tax on the sellers of a good will shift the supply curve to the left until the vertical distance between the two supply curves is equal to the&#8230; …

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  • 9Carbon tax — Part of a series on Green economics Concepts …

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  • 10State and Local Affairs — ▪ 1997 Introduction       States continued to be at the centre of national debates on public policy during 1996. The U.S. Congress, reacting in part to successful experimentation by a number of states, enacted a historic welfare reform measure&#8230; …

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