{"id":210775,"date":"2018-09-14T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/eco-450-week-9-quiz\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:46:23","slug":"eco-450-week-9-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-450-week-9-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"ECO 450 Week 9 Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question 1\u00a0\tA tax on interest income:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 2\u00a0\tWhich of the following is true about comprehensive income?\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 3\u00a0\tIf the market supply curve of savings is upward sloping, a tax on interest income will:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 4\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tMost empirical research indicates that the market supply curve of labor hours by prime-age males is:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 5\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tThe Haig-Simons definition of income:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 6\u00a0\tUsing a regular labor supply curve instead of a compensated supply curve to calculate the excess burden of a tax on labor income will:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 7\u00a0\tIf the return to savings, r, is subject to taxation at rate t, then in equilibrium a saver&#8217;s marginal rate of time preference will equal:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 8\u00a0\tThe compensated labor supply curve:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 9\u00a0\tA flat-rate tax on labor income will:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 10\u00a0\tComprehensive income:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 11\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tIncome from labor services (wages) account for what percentage of gross income in the U.S.?\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 12\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tComprehensive income:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 13\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tIf the supply of labor is perfectly inelastic, then the incidence of a payroll tax levied entirely on employers will be:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 14\u00a0\tThe higher the compensated elasticity of supply of savings,\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 15\u00a0\tWhich of the following will increase a person&#8217;s comprehensive income?\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 16\u00a0\tA taxpayer is in a 33-percent tax bracket and itemizes deductions. He obtains a mortgage from a bank at 9-percent interest. The actual rate of interest he pays is:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 17\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tTax preferences:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 18\u00a0\tIf the excess burden from tax is $10 million, lowering marginal tax rates should make the excess burden:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 19\u00a0\tTax expenditures are:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 20\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tAdjusted gross income, as defined by the United States Tax Code,\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 21\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\t&#8220;Bracket creep&#8221;\ufffd is no longer a problem in the United States because:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 22\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tThe excess burden of tax preferences:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 23\u00a0\tWhich of the following is true for the federal income tax in the United States?\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 24\u00a0\tRemoving savings from the tax base of the personal income tax is likely to:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 25\u00a0\tBecause of the Earned Income Tax Credit, the effective tax rate for the lowest-income taxpayers in the United States is:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 26\u00a0\tCurrently, the tax treatment of capital gains in the United States is such that:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 27\u00a0\tThe reduction in marginal tax rates will:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 28\u00a0\t2 out of 2 points\u00a0\tAs of 2009, the highest marginal tax rate is:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 29\u00a0\tThe exclusion of interest of state and local bonds from taxation by the federal government:\u00a0\tAnswer\u00a0\tQuestion 30\u00a0\tUnder the federal personal income tax rules prevailing as of 2009,\u00a0\tAnswer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question 1\u00a0 A tax on interest income:\u00a0 Answer\u00a0 Question 2\u00a0 Which of the following is true about comprehensive income?\u00a0 Answer\u00a0 Question 3\u00a0 If the market supply curve of savings is upward sloping, a tax on interest income will:\u00a0 Answer\u00a0 Question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/eco-450-week-9-quiz\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}