Chapter 14: Micro Flashcards
Ability-to-pay principle
369
Average tax rate
361
Corporate income taxes
363
Current Population Survey
377
Earned Income tax credit
371
Excise tax
363
Flat tax
362
Food stamp program
371
Gini coefficient
378
Head start
371
Housing assistance programs
371
Lorenz curve
378
Mandated benefits
375
Marginal tax rate
361
Means-tested transfers
370
Medicaid
371
Medicare
374
Payroll tax
363
Personal income tax
359
Poverty line
381
Poverty rate
381
Progressive tax
362
Property tax
363
Proportional tac
362
Quintiles
377
Regressive tax
362
Sales tax
363
Social insurance transfers
370
Supplemental security income
371
Tax bracket
361
Tax incidence
365
Tax revenue
368
Taxable income
360
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program
370
Transfers payments
370
Unemployment insurance
374