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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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VERY LONG RUN, MICROECONOMICS A production time period in which all inputs are variable, including those under control of the firm and those beyond the control of the firm. During the very long run, not only are the labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship inputs variable, but so too are key production inputs such as government rules, technology, and social customs. This is one of four production time periods used in the study of microeconomics. The other three are short run, long run, and very short run.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at an auction wanting to buy either a coffee cup commemorating the 1960 Presidential election or a how-to book on fixing your computer, with illustrations. Be on the lookout for telephone calls from former employers.
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The first U.S. fire insurance company was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 in Philadelphia.
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." -- Peter Drucker, management consultant
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