Brazil has a weak party system because of all of the following ...

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Brazil has a weak party system because of all of the following EXCEPT
 
  a. its historical circumstances, such as the corporatism of the New State era making the formation of independent political parties difficult.
  b. the country's open list proportional representation system that creates incentives for politicians to ignore party labels because voters can easily cross party lines.
  c. party loyalty is weak among both voters and politicians.
  d. candidates could easily shift their party affiliation until 2007, even in the midst of an election.
  e. corruption within Brazil's political parties has led to the citizenry to reject party labels and loyalty.

Question 2

Taxing Internet sales
 
  a. remains insignificant to most states because it is too complicated for the stores to keep track of all 50 statelaws on sales taxes. Sales on the Internet have been declining significantly in recent years.
 b. would generate close to 5 billion a year of additional sales tax revenues through online catalogue sales andperhaps 23 billion from Internet sales overall.
 c. has been a significant source of revenue since 1998 for forty-six states after the U.S. Supreme Court allowedNorth Dakota to become the first state to impose a tax on Internet sales.
 d. may never be a source of revenue for the states because the U.S. Congress passed a law that forbids stateand local government from ever imposing a tax on sales transactions that occur on the Internet.

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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

b