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HORIZONTAL EQUITY: A system of taxes that treats equal people equally. In other words, if you make the same income as someone else and pay the same personal income taxes, then you have horizontal equity.

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POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES

The notion that business cycles are caused by elected government leaders who manipulate the economy to achieve personal political goals, that is, to be re-elected and remain in office. The leaders stimulate the economy leading up to an election, creating a business-cycle expansion that ensures (they hope) re-election, they then induce a business-cycle contraction after the election to correct problems created by the pre-election stimulation. This explanation suggests that government is the source of business cycles are should not be allowed to implement discretionary stabilization policies.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a flea market trying to buy either clothing for your pet iguana or a set of hubcaps. Be on the lookout for deranged pelicans.
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Much of the $15 million used by the United States to finance the Louisiana Purchase from France was borrowed from European banks.
"I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. "

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