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SALES TAX: A tax on retail sales. This is major source of revenue for many state and local governments. Because poorer people tend to spend a larger share of their income on stuff covered by sales taxes, it tends to be a regressive tax. To reduce this regressiveness, some state and local governments excluded items like food and medicine.

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INDUSTRY

A group of firms producing goods or services that are close substitutes-in-consumption. The similarity of the products makes it possible to analyze the production in a market framework. An industry can be broadly defined, such as the manufacturing industry, or narrowly specified, such as the root beer industry. For most economic analysis the term industry is used interchangeably with the term market.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the shopping mall looking to buy either an AC adapter that works with your MPG player or rechargeable batteries. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
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