{"id":653,"date":"2011-03-03T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=653"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:28:04","slug":"taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/03\/03\/taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by photosteve101 on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42931449@N07\/5299199423\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5202\/5299199423_f8de99f3ee_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Torn &amp; Cut One Dollar Note Floating Away in Small $ Pieces\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taxes are a controversial, interesting issue to cover in class that allows you to link sociology to current events. \u00a0Almost everyone has an opinion, but people know surprisingly little about taxation in the United States. \u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/summer-2009\/tax-myths\/\">Tax Myths<\/a>&#8221; by Lane Kenworthy examines many commonly-held views of taxes and explains that a number of things citizens and policymakers think they know about taxes are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some questions that could be used with the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1) What are the tax myths covered in the article?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose one tax myth that particularly surprised you. Why do you think that you, and many other Americans, believed it?<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kenworthy explains that taxes don\u2019t directly reduce inequality. \u00a0How might taxes <em>indirectly<\/em> affect levels of inequality?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nACTIVITY: Chart a day in your life and show where taxes affect your daily routine. For example, your taxes help pay to enforce environmental regulations that protect your drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>**You could also use this article to discuss current events in Wisconsin as well as with the national budget.**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes are a controversial, interesting issue to cover in class that allows you to link sociology to current events. \u00a0Almost everyone has an opinion, but people know surprisingly little about taxation in the United States. \u00a0&#8220;Tax Myths&#8221; by Lane Kenworthy examines many commonly-held views of taxes and explains that a number of things citizens and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,13,837,8623],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-class","tag-inequality","tag-materials","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}