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GRADUATED TAX: A type of progressive tax in which the tax rate is higher as the value of the taxed item increases. For example a graduated sales tax would be one with a 5 percent tax rate on the first $10 of sales, 10 percent tax rate on the any sales between $10 and $50, then a 15 percent rate for anything above $50. Our personal income tax system uses graduated taxes.
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Lesson 17: Money | Unit 1: Money Basics
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- The basic definition of money, which is anything that is generally accepted in exchange for goods and services.
- That money is something that can be readily traded for valuable assets.
- That money is THE medium through which market exchanges travel.
- The two types of value:
- Value in use which means an item provides satisfaction of wants and needs.
- Value in exchange which means an item does not provide satisfaction directly but can be traded for something that does.
- That money is an economic lubricant and that much money prompts inflationary expansion and too little entices recessionary unemployment.
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BANK RESERVES Assets used by banks to back up deposits and to conduct daily transactions, including withdrawing funds, "cashing" checks, and transferring funds between banks to "clear" checks. Reserves, also termed bank reserves or legal reserves, includes two types of assets: vault cash and Federal Reserve deposits. These legal reserves are then divided between require reserves and excess reserves. Required reserves are used to back up deposits and excess reserves are used for loans.
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Helping spur the U.S. industrial revolution, Thomas Edison patented nearly 1300 inventions, 300 of which came out of his Menlo Park "invention factory" during a four-year period.
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"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. " -- John Quincy Adams, 6th US president
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MFC Marginal Factor Cost
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