Progressive taxation is a policy where higher income earners pay higher tax rates rather than taxing all people at the same rate, providing the government with revenue to fund programs for lower-income earners.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Council on Foreign Relations
  Forms of Government: Change - What Is Economic Inequality?

Sources

• Forms of Government: Change - What Is Economic Inequality? education.cfr.org Council on Foreign Relations via serper

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• progressive taxation concept
• income tax rates concept
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