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a normal good. Requiring people with higher incomes to pay more for the
cleanup can thus be justified on the benefits-received principle as well.
Certainly taxes cannot respond precisely to benefits received. Neither the
ability-to-pay nor the benefits-received doctrine gives us a recipe for
determining just what each person “should” pay in taxes, but these
doctrines give us a framework for thinking about the justification for
particular taxes.
Types of Taxes
Figure 15.6 Sources of Government Revenue, 2007
The chart shows sources of revenue for federal, state, and local
governments in the United States. The data omit revenues from
government-owned utilities and liquor stores. All figures are in billions
of dollars.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of US, 2008
(online) Tables 422 and 461.
Attributed to Libby Rittenberg and Timothy Tregarthen
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