Let's walk through the median voter theorem in a little more detail. Consider a town with three voters, Enrique, Nandini, and Torsten. The big issue in the upcoming election is how high the sales tax rate should be. As you'll learn in macroeconomics (and in real life), on average, a government that wants to do more spending has to bring in more taxes, so "higher permanent taxes" is the same as "higher government spending." Enrique wants low taxes and small government, Nandini is in the middle, and Torsten wants the biggest town government of the three. Each one is a stubborn person, and his or her favorite position-what economic theorists call the "ideal point-never changes in this problem. Their preferences can be summed up like this, with the x denoting each person's favorite tax rate: Enrique 0% N O Sales tax rate Nandini Torsten 20% Suppose there are two politicians running for office, N and O (so ignore P for now). Enrique will vote for Choose your answer, Nandini will vote for Choose your answer and Torsten will vote for Choose your answer Candidate Choose your answer will win the election.

The Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman liked to tell this story:   There once was a town where thanks to expansive fiscal policy in Washington, the town had more money to fix roads and build bridges. The construction workers on those projects splurged on steak dinners every Friday, the meat for which they bought at the local butcher shop. The butcher was thrilled by increased sales of meat, as was the butcher's wholesale supplier. In fact, the butcher's supplier tried to put in bigger orders but it wasn't possible to buy more because the slaughterhouses were caught short, too. The result? Higher prices for meat got passed up from the slaughterhouse to the wholesaler to the butcher to the construction workers. With the possible exception of the owners of cattle, nobody was happy. Now a news reporter heard about surging steak prices in the town and decided to write a story about what was happening. Since the initial increase in meat prices was seen in the price of meat sold by…

suppose Lena makes $50000 per year and Mariah makes $65000 per year. If each pays $5000 in taxes: What would their individual tax rates be? Would you describe this tax system as proportional, progressive, or regressive?

A government collects $175 billion quarterly in tax revenue. Each year it allocates $70 billion to the justice system and $130 billion for its own administrative costs. What percentage of annual tax revenue is allocated to these two categories of government spending? Group of answer choices 37.15% 28.57% 17.51% 27.58%