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The State of Iowa and Iowa cities use taxes on alcohol, tobacco, gambling, gasoline, pickup truck license plates, and speed camera fines for this end. Pick one of these taxes to write about.
Here are a few questions that should be answered:
1. Will the taxes have the desired effect (usually to reduce consumption)?
2. Will there be unexpected economic side-effects?
3. Are the taxes progressive or regressive?
4. Are the taxes primarily to influence behavior or to raise money?
Basic Requirement for paper
1. Minimum 6 pages . Microsoft Word Document. Charts, graphs and images can be included but do not count toward the 6 pages.
2. Do not use first person "I", "me" and so on.
3. Should use newspaper sources extensively as well as economic concepts from textbook.
Paper Format
A. One inch margins on top, bottom and both sides.
B. Use either 10 or 12 characters per inch, double spaced.
C. No title page, just title at the top, your name (Melissa Lindle), my name (Instructor Mel Prewitt), date, and name of class (Introduction to Economics). Skip three spaces and begin paper. Do not need a bibliography at end.
D. Don’t justify the right margin.
E. Must cite all paraphrases and quotations. Use MLA style. All short quotations must be placed within quotation marks. Avoid using the authors’ words as much as possible. It is sometimes important to quote a senator but it�s almost never important to quote a newspaper reporter.
F. Long quotations (longer than 3 or 4 lines) should be indented 1/2 inch on both sides, single-spaced, skip 3 spaces above and below the quotation, don’t use quotation marks, and place citation in brackets. Should not use more than 1 or 2 long quotations.
G. Number the pages.
H. Do not skip a space between paragraphs.
I. Correctly use as many terms as possible from the included list. Use a bold font for these terms when they are used.
You should explain why you believe as you do and why you came to that opinion based upon these readings and materials. Your explanation of you view should contain specific evidence to support or illustrate what you believe.
***TERMS – use as many as possible
A
Adam Smith
Antitrust laws
Aggregate demand
Aggregate supply
Aggregate supply curve
Aggregate demand curve
Available technology
Automatic stabilizers
Absolute advantage
B
Barriers to entry
Barter
Budgets deficits
Business cycle
C
Capital
Ceteris paribus
Changes in income
Changes in taste
Consumer goods
Capital stock
Corporations, Partnerships, Proprietorships
Consumers
Complements
Clayton Act
Cyclical unemployment
Classical economic theory
Consumption
Crowding in and crowding out
Consumption possibilities
Comparative advantage
Currency depreciation and appreciation
D
Demand
Demand curve
Determinants of demand
Diminishing marginal utility
Duopoly
Demand-side economics theory
Disposable income
Deregulation
Design problems
E
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Externality/externalities
Economic growth
Economic explanations
Elastic demand
Economic cost and economic profit
Equilibrium price
Equilibrium wage
Economies of scale
Equity issues
External costs
External benefits
Extern shock
Elastic viewpoint
F
Factors of production
Factor markets
Fixed costs and variable costs
Free-rider problem
Federal Trade Commission Act
Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act
Federal Reserve Act
Fictional unemployment
Fiscal policy
Flexible prices and wages
Fiscal stimulus
Fiscal restraint
Full employment
G
Government franchise
Government intervention
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
GDP growth
GDP gap
GDP per capita
Government spending
Growth rate
Goal conflicts
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
H
Human capital
I
Infant industries
Investment
Investment goals
Income transfers
Inelastic demand
Investment decision
Implicit and explicit costs
Inflation and deflation
Inflation policy
Internal balance of payments
Internal market forces
Internal value of dollar
Improved capital equipment
Implementation problems
Imports and exports
J
Job training programs
K
Karl Marx
Keynesian theory
L
Labor
Laissez faire
Law of demand
Limited resources
Law of diminishing returns
the long run
Labor supply curve
Labor force
M
A market
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Market mechanism
Market demand
Market shortage
Market supply
Market equilibrium
Monopoly
Maximizing happiness
Maximizing income
Marginal utility
Marginal output
Marginal revenue
Marginal costs
Market structure
Market failure
Market power
Monopolistic competition
Minimum wage
Monetary policy
Macro Equilibrium
Monetarists
Multiplier
Market participants
Macroeconomics models
Measurement problems
N
Net exports
Nominal GDP
Nontariff barrier
Negative marginal utility
O
Oligopoly
Opportunity costs
Optimal mix of output
P
Production possibilities curve
Price ceiling
Price floor
Per capita GDP
Productivity
Personal distribution of income
Progressive and regressive taxes
Producers
Product markets
Price elasticity of demand
Perfect competition
Price taker
Price maker
Production decision
Patent
Predatory pricing
Productivity of labor
Private good
Public good
Policy levers
Production possibilities
Productive capacity
Political business cycle
Production function
Q
Quota
R
Real GDP
Resources
Regulation
Recession and depression
Relative price
Real income
Ratio of capital to labor
Research and development
S
Scarcity
Sociopsychiatric explanations
Substitutes
Suboptimal mix of output
Social demand
Sherman Act
Social Security benefits
Structural unemployment
Seasonal unemployment
Supply-side policy
Supply-side economic theory
Say�s Law
Savings and spending
Standard of living
Safety regulations
Stagflation
Structural
Supply-siders
Specialization
Subsidy
T
Technology
Total utility
Total revenue
Total profit and total cost
Tax policy
Tax rate
Tax incentives
Trade balance
Trade surplus
Trade deficit
Term of trade
Trade restrictions
Tariffs
U
Utility
Unitary elastic demand
Unemployment benefits
Unemployment policy
Unemployment rates
W
What, how, and for whom questions
Welfare maximizing
Wage rates
Welfare
World Trade Organization (WTO)
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