Category: Income Inequality

A. all of these answers
B. libertarianism
C. utilitarianism
D. none of these answers

A. the income is split equally between the top 20% and the rest of the distribution
B. one person has all the income and every one else has nothing
C. all the income is received by the top 20% of the income distribution
D. income is equally distributed

A. the tax rate you pay on any additional income that you earn.
B. the total amount of tax you pay divided by your total income
C. the additional tax you pay divided by your total income
D. your total income divided by the total amount of tax you pay.

A. benefits are reduced at such a high rate when recipients earn more income that there is little or no incentive to work once one is receiving benefits.
B. in order to be eligible for benefits a recipient cannot have a job
C. they make recipients more comfortable than most middle-class citizens.
D. anti-poverty programs attract naturally lazy people to begin with.

A. a higher percentage of their income in taxes then low income people
B. a lower percentage of their income in taxes than low income people
C. the same percentage of their income in taxes as low income people all the taxes in the economy.
D. all the taxes in the economy

A. the ratio of the percentage of total income received by the top 20% of families to the percentage of total income received by by the bottom 20% of families
B. the most common way of representing the income distribution graphically
C. a commonly used measure of the degree of inequality in an income distribution
D. a commonly used measure of the degree of inequity in an income distribution

A. whether there is perfect or imperfect information
B. who is legally obliged to pay the tax
C. elasticities of demand and supply
D. how many producers there are:

A. will be perfectly inelastic in the long run. but upward sloping in the short run
B. is perfectly inelastic since there is a fixed amount of land
C. is perfectly elastic since there is fixed amount of land
D. will be upward sloping because as land becomes more valuable in once use, the amount of land made available for that use will increase

A. increase a worker’s current income and permanent income
B. reduce a worker’s current income but not necessarily their permanent income
C. affect neither the current nor the permanent income of a worker
D. reduce a worker’s permanent income but not their current income

A. benefits received tax
B. progressive tax
C. regressive tax
D. proportional tax