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kamilo84

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Federal taxes, such as Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, and excise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes are __________.
 
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of cutting the size of bureaucracy as a way to decrease waste and inefficiency in government?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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cegalasso

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

regressive

Answer to Question 2

An ideal response will:
1, Describe cutting the size of government as the preferred strategy of many critics of the federal bureaucracy.
2, Provide one or more examples of the above, such as Clinton's order in 1992 to eliminate 100,000 jobs, freeze salaries of government workers, and reduce cost-of-living pay adjustments.
3, Explain one or more advantages of this approach, including its apparent effectiveness in decreasing the size of the federal government since the Ford administration.
4, Explain one or more disadvantages of this approach, including the negative effects on employee morale and the possibility that cuts will go too far and decrease the provision of important services to the public.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Thank you :)


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Reply #3 on: Jul 10, 2018
Happy to help you


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