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Fall 2014, SOC101, Dropbox Assignment 3 (Worth 10 points)
· Each of the following questions is worth 5 points.
· Answer each of the following questions in 150 to 200 words.
· Cite in-text all ideas that are not your own and original. E.g. Development anthropology is applied anthropology that aims at improving peoples’ lives (Lavenda & Schultz, 2003, p. 8). For details on using the APA style, visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ 1. What was the US estate tax (see pp. 274-275 for a summary) and how did it try to resolve the problem of inequality? Include in your response a discussion on the type of equality that the estate tax tried to achieve.
Estate tax is a tax in which people can send down their assets to next generations. It is also something to make sure that people are getting taxed to their certain class. Estate tax can also be known as the death tax because when you die you can transfer money and other assets to future generation. Estate tax is trying to resolve the problem of inequality of the classes. It is said to put more of the tax on to the richer and ones who have the money. By doing this it can slowly start to balance out the classes on have the poor not be as poor but also it makes the rich not as rich, but still wealthier than others. Some people even upper class people agree with this like Bill Gates and George Soros. Soros believes that if this tax went away all the taxes would be pushed down to the lower classes. In which would make the rich, richer and poor, poorer. 2. Whereas Vilfredo Pareto sees a benefit in having power centralized in a large, otherwise ungovernable society, for C. Wright Mills such a system hurts democracy by consolidating the power to make major decisions into the hand (and interests) of the few (Conley, 2013, p. 257). How does “The Power Elite” by C. Wright Mills help explain the repeal of
Fall 2014, SOC101, Dropbox Assignment 3 (Worth 10 points)
· Each of the following questions is worth 5 points.
· Answer each of the following questions in 150 to 200 words.
· Cite in-text all ideas that are not your own and original. E.g. Development anthropology is applied anthropology that aims at improving peoples’ lives (Lavenda & Schultz, 2003, p. 8). For details on using the APA style, visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ 1. What was the US estate tax (see pp. 274-275 for a summary) and how did it try to resolve the problem of inequality? Include in your response a discussion on the type of equality that the estate tax tried to achieve.
Estate tax is a tax in which people can send down their assets to next generations. It is also something to make sure that people are getting taxed to their certain class. Estate tax can also be known as the death tax because when you die you can transfer money and other assets to future generation. Estate tax is trying to resolve the problem of inequality of the classes. It is said to put more of the tax on to the richer and ones who have the money. By doing this it can slowly start to balance out the classes on have the poor not be as poor but also it makes the rich not as rich, but still wealthier than others. Some people even upper class people agree with this like Bill Gates and George Soros. Soros believes that if this tax went away all the taxes would be pushed down to the lower classes. In which would make the rich, richer and poor, poorer. 2. Whereas Vilfredo Pareto sees a benefit in having power centralized in a large, otherwise ungovernable society, for C. Wright Mills such a system hurts democracy by consolidating the power to make major decisions into the hand (and interests) of the few (Conley, 2013, p. 257). How does “The Power Elite” by C. Wright Mills help explain the repeal of