QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS
1. Classify the purposes of public expenditures. (Guitteau, pages 187- 188.)
2. What is the "police function" of government? (Fetter, page 241).
3. What is a franchise tax? (Guitteau, pages 201-202.)
4. What is the "magic fund" delusion? (Bullock, page 370.)
5. Distinguish between proportional, regressive, and progressive taxation. (Bullock, page 373.)
6. What is an excess profits tax? (Bullock, pages 382-383.)
7. What is the importance of the license tax? (Bullock, pages 392- 393).
8. Distinguish between direct and indirect taxation. (Ely, pages 710- 711.)
9. What are "taxes on transactions"? (Ely, pages 719-720.) 10. What is meant by the shifting or incidence of taxation? (Fetter, pages 252- 253.)