313_Group_P4

Position Paper – Part Four

Name: Brandon Taylor

Instructions: Please use this form as an organizer for writing your portion of your group position paper. You will be writing the conclusion to the paper. You should clearly and thoroughly summarize your groups problem and your solution. Be persuasive and convincing in your conclusion why you believe that you have identified the best solution to your problem. Be sure to follow the MLA citation format that you used when completing your JRP. You will also complete the Annotated Bibliography – gather all sources from your issue group members and compile into one annotated bibliography

VII. Conclusion: Be sure to restate the problem and why you think your solution is the best possible course of action.

There are problems is society today. Those problems are as follows:
 * The government cannot find a suitable way to tax everyone in a proper manner.
 * The government is not acquiring enough revenue. It does not have enough money to support public programs or to distribute the impoverished citizens of the United States.
 * The wealthy are finding loopholes which negatively impact the economy because it cuts down the budgets of public services.

Our best solution is as follows:

In addition to the progressiveness of income tax, which results in the tax brackets of 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, and 35% depending on income earnings, we need to increase the highest tax bracket's proportional tax percentage by five. The highest tax bracket is 35% for all who earn more than or equal to $373,650 of annual income. Along with the increased proportional tax of the 35% tax bracket we will increase the enforcement and punishments for avoiding tax payments.

This solution is the best possible course of action because it bestows the government with additional revenue from those who can afford to provide the government with the additional revenue. Along with the government ensuring that they receive the payments that are required by law.

VIII. Annotated Bibliography: Collect all the sources from your fellow issue group members and compile one ANNOTATED Bibliography.

Briscoe,David. Madison Capital Times [madison, Wis] 08 Feb 19996: pp.9A 2010-16-26

Forbes, Steve, and Rober S.. McIntyre. "flat tax: Freedom or Fraud?." American Legion Magazine. April 2002: 24+. SIRS Resercher. Web. 18 FEb 2011. Joseph J. Thorndike, We Don't Hate Taxes; We Hate Tax Loopholes." Wahsington post( Washington, DC). 12 sep 2010: B.3. SIRS Resercher. We. 17 Feb 2011.

Katz, Micheal B. "Public Education As Welfare." //University of Pennsylvania Press// Sept. 2010: 52-56. //SIRS Issues Researcher//. Web. 17 Feb. 2011. <[|http://sks.sirs.com]>.

Miller, Lisa. "Divided We Eat." //Newsweek// 29 Nov. 2010: n. pag. //SIRS Issues// //Researcher//. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. <[|http://sks.sirs.com]>.

Saldin, Robert. "Tax Reform." Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society. ABC- CLIO, 2001. Web. 17 Feb.

Saldin, Robert. "Tax Reform: Outlook." Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 17. 2011.

Thomas, Kaye A. "Your Tax Bracket: Finding your tax bracket, and understanding it." //Fairmark.com//. N.p., 17 Dec. 2010. Web. 17 Feb. 2011. [|http://www.fairmark.com].

Unkowns. "Flat Tax Would Make Today a Lot Easier." Gazette(Montreal, Canada). 30 Apr 2008: p A.18. SIRS Resercher. Web. 18 Feb 2011. Weisman, Jonathan. "Wealthy Face Tax Increase." //Wall Street Journal// 2 Feb. 2010: A.1. //SIRS Issues Researcher//. Web. 18 Feb. 2011. <[|http://sks.sirs.com]>.