How Income Taxes Affect Economic Growth

One of the most commonly discussed issues in economics is how tax rates relate to economic growth. Advocates of tax cuts claim that a reduction in the tax rate will lead to increased economic growth and prosperity. Others claim that if we reduce taxes, almost all of the benefits will go to the rich, as those are the ones who pay the most taxes. What does economic theory suggest about the relationship between economic growth and taxation? Income Taxes and Extreme Cases In studying economic policies, it is always useful to study extreme cases. Extreme cases are situations such as What if we had a 100% income tax rate?, or What if we raised the minimum wage to $50.00 an hour?. While wholly unrealistic, they do give very stark examples of what direction key economic variables will move when we change a government policy. First, suppose that we lived in a society without taxation. Well worry about how the government finances its programs later on, but for now, well assume that they have enough money to finance all the programs we have today. If there are no taxes, then the government does not earn any income from taxation and citizens do not spend any time worrying about how to evade taxes. If someone has a wage of $10.00 an hour, then they get to keep that $10.00. If such a society were possible, we can see that people would be quite productive as any income they earn, they keep. Now consider the opposing case. Taxes are now set to be 100% of income. Any cent you earn goes to the government. It may seem that the government would earn a lot of money this way, but thats not likely to happen. If you dont get to keep anything out of what you earn, why would you go to work? Most people would rather spend their time doing something they enjoy. Simply, put, you wouldnt spend any time working for a company if you didnt get anything out of it. Society as a whole wouldnt be very productive if everybody spent a large portion of their time trying to evade taxes. The government would earn very little income from taxation, as very few people would go to work if they did not earn an income from it. While these are extreme cases, they do illustrate the effect of taxes and they are useful guides of what happens at other tax rates. A 99% tax rate is awfully like a 100% tax rate, and if you ignore collection costs, having a 2% tax rate is not much different from having no taxes at all. Go back to the person earning $10.00 an hour. Do you think hell spend more time at work or less if his take-home pay is $8.00 rather than $2.00? Its a pretty safe bet that at $2.00 hes going to spend less time at work and much more time trying to earn a living away from the prying eyes of the government. Taxes and Other Ways of Financing Government In the case where the government can finance spending outside of taxation, we see the following: Productivity declines as the tax rate increases, as people choose to work less. The higher the tax rate, the more time people spend evading taxes and the less time they spend on the more productive activity. So the lower the tax rate, the higher the value of all the goods and services produced.Government tax revenue does not necessarily increase as the tax rate increases. The government will earn more tax income at 1% rate than at 0%, but they will not earn more at 100% than they will at 10%, due to the disincentives high tax rates cause. Thus there is a peak tax rate where government revenue is highest. The relationship between income tax rates and government revenue can be graphed on something called a Laffer Curve. Of course, government programs are not self-financing. Well examine the effect of government spending in the next section. Even an ardent supporter of unrestricted capitalism realizes that there are necessary functions for the government to perform.  The Capitalism Site  lists three necessary things a government must provide: An Army: To protect against foreign invaders.A Police Force: To protect against domestic criminals.A Court System: To settle honest disputes that arise, and to punish criminals according to objectively predefined laws. Government Spending and the Economy Without the last two functions of government, it is easy to see that there would be little economic activity. Without a police force, it would be difficult to protect anything that youve earned. If people could just come by and take anything you owned, wed see three things happen: People would spend a lot more time trying to steal what they need and a lot less time trying to produce what they need, as stealing something is often easier than producing it yourself. This leads to a reduction in economic growth.People who have produced valuable goods would spend more time and money trying to protect what theyve earned. This is not a productive activity; society would be much better off if citizens would spend more time producing  productive goods.There would likely be a lot more murders, so the society would lose a lot of productive people prematurely. This cost and the costs people incur in trying to prevent their own murder greatly diminish economic activity. A police force which protects the basic human rights of citizens is absolutely necessary to ensure economic growth. A court system also promotes economic growth. A large portion of economic activity depends on the use of contracts. When you start a new job, normally you have a contract specifying what your rights and responsibilities are and how much you will be compensated for your labor. If theres no way to enforce a contract like that, then there is no way to ensure that you will end up getting compensated for your labor. Without that guarantee, many would decide it is not worth the risk to work for someone else. Most contracts involve an element of do X now, and get paid Y later or get paid Y now, do X later. If these contracts are not enforceable, the party who is obligated to do something in the future might decide then that he doesnt feel like it. Since both parties know this, they would decide not to enter into such an agreement and the economy as a whole would suffer. Having a working court system, military, and police force provides a large economic benefit to a society. However it is expensive for a government to provide such services, so theyll have to collect money from the citizens of the country to finance such programs. The financing for those systems comes through taxation. So we see that a society with some taxation that provides these services will have a much higher level of economic growth than a society with no taxation but no police force or the court system. So an increase in taxes  can  lead to larger economic growth if it is used to pay for one of these services. I use the term  can  because it is not necessarily the case that expanding the police force or hiring more judges will lead to greater economic activity. An area which already has many police officers and little crime will gain almost no benefit from hiring another officer. Society would be better off not hiring her and instead of lowering taxes. If your armed for ces are already large enough to deter any potential invaders, then any additional military spending drags down economic growth. Spending money on these three areas is  not necessarily  productive, but having at least a minimal amount of all three will lead to an economy with higher economic growth than none at all. In most Western democracies the majority of government spending goes towards social programs. While there are literally thousands of government-funded social programs the two largest are generally health care and education. These two do not fall into the category of infrastructure. While it is true that schools and hospitals must be built, it is possible for the private sector to profitably do so. Schools and healthcare facilities have been built by non-government groups all over the world, even in countries that already have extensive government programs in this area. Since it is possible to cheaply collect funds from those who use the facility and to ensure those who do use the facilities cannot easily evade paying for those services, these do not fall into the category of infrastructure. Can these programs still provide a net economic benefit? Being in good health will improve your productivity. A healthy workforce is a productive workforce, so spending on health care is a boon to the economy. However, there is no reason the private sector cannot adequately provide health care or why people will not invest in their own health. Its tough to earn an income when youre too sick to go to work, so individuals will be willing to pay for health insurance that will help them get better if they are ill. Since people would be willing to buy health coverage and the private sector can provide it, there is no market failure here. To purchase such health insurance you must be able to afford it. We could get into a situation where society would be better off if the poor got proper medical treatment, but they do not because they cannot afford it. Then there would be a benefit to giving  health care  coverage to the poor. But we can get the same benefit by simply giving the poor cash and letting them spend it on whatever they want, including health care. However, it could be that people, even when they have enough money, will buy an inadequate amount of health care. Many conservatives argue that this is the basis of many social programs; government officials do not believe that citizens buy enough of the right things, so government programs are necessary to ensure people get what they need but wont buy.   The same situation occurs with educational expenditures. People with more education tend to be on average more productive than people with less education. Society is better off by having a highly educated population. Since people with higher productivity tend to get paid more, if parents care about the future welfare of their children, they will have an incentive to seek an education for their children. There are no technical reasons why private sector companies cannot provide educational services, so those who can afford it will get an adequate amount of education. As before, there will be low-income families who cannot afford a proper education although they (and society as a whole) are better off by having well-educated children. It would seem that having programs which focus their energies on poorer families will have a greater economic benefit than those which are universal in nature. There seems to be a benefit to the economy (and society) by providing an education to a family with limited opportunities. There is little point in providing an education or health insurance to a wealthy family, as they will likely buy as much as they need. On the whole, if you believe that those who can afford it will buy an efficient amount of health care and education,  social programs  tend to be a deterrent to economic growth. Programs which focus on agents who are unable to afford these items have a greater benefit to the economy than those that are universal in nature. We saw in the previous section that higher taxes can lead to higher economic growth  if  those taxes are efficiently spent on three areas which protect the rights of citizens. A military and a police force ensure that people do not have to spend a great deal of time and money on personal security, allowing them to engage in more productive activities. A court system allows individuals and organizations to enter into contracts with one another which create opportunities for growth through collaboration motivated by rational  self-interest. Roads and Highways Cannot  Be Paid by Individuals There are other government programs, which bring a net benefit to the economy when fully paid for by taxes. There are certain goods that society finds desirable but individuals or corporations cannot supply. Consider the problem of roads and highways. Having an extensive system of roads on which people and goods can freely travel greatly adds to the prosperity of a nation. If a private citizen wanted to build a road for profit, they would run into two major difficulties: The cost of collection.  If the road was a useful one, people would gladly pay for its benefits. In order to collect fees for the use of the road, a toll would have to be set up at every exit and entry to the road; many  interstate highways  work this way. However, for most local roads the amount of money obtained through these tolls would be dwarfed by the extreme costs of setting up these tolls. Because of the collection problem, a lot of useful infrastructures would not be built, although there is a net benefit to its existence.Monitoring who uses the road.  Suppose you were able to set up a system of tolls at all the entrances and exits. It may still be possible for people to enter or leave the road at points other than the official exit and entrance. If people can evade paying the toll, they will. Governments provide a solution to this problem by constructing the roads and recouping the expenses through taxes such as the income tax and the gasoline tax. Other pieces of infrastructure such as the sewage and water system work on the same principle. The idea of government activity in these areas is not new; it goes at least as far back as  Adam Smith. In his 1776 masterpiece,  The Wealth of Nations  Smith wrote: The third and last duty of the sovereign or commonwealth is that of erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works, which, though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, and which it, therefore, cannot be expected that any individual or small number of individuals should erect or maintain. Higher taxes which lead to improvements in infrastructure  can  lead to higher economic growth. Once again, it depends on the usefulness of the infrastructure being created. A six-lane highway between two small towns in upstate New York is not likely to be worth the tax dollars spent on it. An improvement to the safety of the water supply in an impoverished area might be worth its weight in gold if it leads to reduced illness and suffering for the users of the system. Higher Taxes Are Used to Finance Social Programs A tax cut does not necessarily help or hurt an economy. You  must  consider what the revenue from those taxes is being spent on before you can determine the effect the cut will have on the economy. From this discussion, though, we see the following general trends: Cutting taxes and wasteful spending will help an economy because of the disincentive effect caused by taxation. Cutting taxes and useful programs may or may not benefit the economy.A certain amount of government spending is required in the military, the police, and the court system. A country which does not spend an adequate amount of money in these areas will have a depressed economy. Too much spending in these areas is wasteful.A country also needs infrastructure  to have a high level of economic activity. Much of this infrastructure cannot be adequately provided by the private sector, so governments must spend money in this area to ensure economic growth. However, too much spending or spending on the wrong infrastructure can be wasteful and slow  economic growth.If people are naturally inclined to spend their own money on education and healthcare, then taxation used for social programs is likely to  slow economic growth. Social spending which targets low-income families is m uch better for the economy than universal programs.If people are not inclined to spend towards their own education and healthcare, then there can be a benefit to supplying these goods, as society as a whole benefit from a healthy and educated workforce. The government ending all social programs is not a solution to these issues. There can be many benefits to these programs which are not measured in economic growth. A slowdown in economic growth is likely to occur as these programs are expanded, however, so that should always be kept in mind. If the program has enough other benefits, society as a whole may wish to have lower economic growth in return for more social programs. Source:   The Capitalism Site - FAQ - Government

Comparison of Two Poems - 1156 Words

In two of D.H Lawrence’s works Bat and Man and Bat, both poems portray the author’s encounters with bats and his feeling of disgust towards them. In this essay I will compare the two poems in terms of tone, rhythm, diction and style. Both Bat and Man and bat started with a peaceful tone; the author describes the setting in Florence, Italy and gives a calming tone to the readers. However, as the author proceeds with the poem, and starts to introduce a bat, the tone starts to change. In bat, the tone changes gradually, the author wonders why a swallow would fly so late- at this point he describes the swallow’s movement and the tone changes; the readers sense a mysterious feel. When the author does confirm that the bird is in fact a†¦show more content†¦The scene where the author tries to escape the bat is a typical action scene, happening very quickly. 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Genetics of Alcoholism. Does Alcohol Dependence Depend of Race Free Essays

Alcoholism is very all known occurrence that have a place in every culture. Modern medical definitions describe alcoholism as a disease and addiction which results in a persistent use of alcohol despite negative consequences. Although this definition do not specify current and on-going use of alcohol as a qualifier for alcoholism, some do, as well as remarking on the long-term effects of consistent, heavy alcohol use, include dependence and symptoms of withdrawal. We will write a custom essay sample on Genetics of Alcoholism. Does Alcohol Dependence Depend of Race or any similar topic only for you Order Now Psychiatric geneticists John I. Nurnberger, Jr. and Laura Jean Bierut suggest that alcoholism does not have a single cause—including genetic—but that genes do play an important role â€Å"by affecting processes in the body and brain that interact with one another and with an individual’s life experiences to produce protection or susceptibility. † They also report that fewer than a dozen alcoholism-related genes have been identified, but that more likely await discovery. At least one genetic test exists for an allele that is correlated to alcoholism and opiate addiction. Human dopamine receptor genes have a detectable variation referred to as the DRD2 TaqI polymorphism.Those who possess the A1 allele (variation) of this polymorphism have a small but significant tendency towards addiction to opiates and endorphin releasing drugs like alcohol. 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Whether or not the recent growth of the economy started well before the economic reforms of the 1990s

Introduction India’s financial system, the major economy in the earth in terms of buying power, is going to touch novel heights in upcoming years. By 2035, India is forecasted to be the third major financial system of the earth just after US and China. It is prospected to grow to 60% of the range of the US financial system.Advertising We will write a custom essay sample on Whether or not the recent growth of the economy started well before the economic reforms of the 1990s specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More This thriving financial system of today has to bypass through many stages before it can attain the present milestone of 9% GDP (Bosworth Collins 2007). The account of Indian economy can be broadly divided into three stages: Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Post Colonial. Discussion India’s Economy during the Pre-Colonial period In this pre-colonial stage is where the financial record of India ever since Indus Valley Civ ilization to 1700 AD can be classified. Throughout Indus valley civilization, Indian financial system was very well urbanized. It had very high-quality trade associations with other parts of the humankind, which is obvious from the coins of a variety of civilizations established at the location of Indus valley (Roy 2002). Prior to the initiation of East India Company, each village in India was an independent body. Every village was economically sovereign as all the financial wants were satisfied inside the village. During Colonization The advent of East India Company broke the Indian financial system, as there was a mutual reduction of capital (Srinivasan Tendulkar 2003). The British used to purchase unprocessed supplies from India at cheaper charges and refined merchandise was traded at superior than standard cost in Indian markets. Throughout this stage India’s allocation of world revenue reduced from 22.3% in 1700 AD to 3.8% in 1952. Post- Colonization Once India got sove reignty from this colonial law in 1947, the procedure of rejuvenation of the financial system started. For this, different strategies and systems were invented. The first five-year plans for the expansion of Indian financial system came into completion in 1952. These five-year plans, initiated by Indian administration, concentrated on the wants of Indian financial system. If on one hand farming acknowledged the instant consideration, on the other side, manufacturing zone would be urbanized at a quick speed to give employment openings to the rising populace, and to remain rapid with the expansions in the world (Twomey 1983). Ever since, Indian financial system has come a long way. The Gross Domestic Product at aspect cost, which was 2.3 % in 1951-52, reached 9% in fiscal year 2005-06.Advertising Looking for essay on business economics? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More India’s Economy Development rate Since 1980, India ha s observed a stable increase in its development rate. The â€Å"Hindu growth rate† estimated at 3.5 to 5.5% was pursued by the policy move away from extreme controls and limitations on personal venture towards steady decontrol (Srinivasan Tendulkar 2003). Between the years 1988 and 1989, the development rate augmented to 10.5%. Since 1980 to 2002, the financial system of the country was 6% and up to the year 2007, almost 8%. Before the reforms of the 1990s, India survived mainly by borrowing from other external sources (Broadberry Gupta 2005). The increase in development rates started in the 1980s, and the 1990 reforms only speeded up the procedure. The broad-based and deeper reforms in the mid-1990s increased the GDP growth rate to an average of 9% (Srinivasan Tendulkar 2003). The country’s sales overseas and trade in, were $18.14 billion and $24.07 billion correspondingly, in between the years 1990 and 1991. In 2006, the country’s exports arrived at $120.3 billion to develop into the 28th leading goods exporter, and imports arrived at $174.8 billion to develop into the 17th foremost goods importer of the globe. India’s allocation in world goods exports, after increasing from 0.5 % in 1990 to 0.8% in 2003, crossed to 1% in 2005 (Delong 2003). This boost owed to the increase in India’s exports at more than twice the pace of development of humanity exports from 2005. India’s noteworthy export development in current years was due to positive external improvements and home policy plans. Imports services have been rising faster than goods trade. The allocation of services in the entire external trade improved from 21.5% in 1990 to 27.4% in 2006 (Bosworth Collins 2007). Recent research show that India’s entire service exports positioned at $73.8 billion to become the 10th foremost service exporter with an allocation of 2.7% of world service exports. Additionally, India is ranked 13th among foremost service import ers with a contribution of 2.4% of world service imports. Totally, service imports quantify to $63.7 billion more than the 15 years in subject, while India’s services exports improved from $4.6billion in 1990 to $73 billion in 2005, more than a 12-fold rise (Ahluwalia 2002).Advertising We will write a custom essay sample on Whether or not the recent growth of the economy started well before the economic reforms of the 1990s specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More The Gandhi policy In the middle of India’s flag, there is a spinning wheel, a figure employed by Gandhi to disapprove English material imports underneath colonial law and to show the dignity of a culture of small-scale farming and commerce. For much of its sovereignty, India’s financial system was presided over by the values of the spinning wheel, with catastrophic economic and societal effects (Delong 2003). Since then, India is still under pressure to mov e further than Gandhi-era economics, and lift its customary of living. India’s current progress in the direction of economic development stems from the alterations undertaken after the 1991 financial catastrophe, which raised India from decades of sluggish growth under communist law and offered a chance to advance living circumstances in the huge deprived country (Parthasarathi 1998). The current growth has been inspiring, among the uppermost development rates in the earth. Immense figure of the worlds’ unfortunate live in India, and will depend on its prospect expansion to conquer poverty, since the current growth is not sufficient. Definitely, immense steps have been taken toward improvement on trade, and industrialized policy (Roy, 2000). The fiscal system, considerable development has been made in reducing deficiency, and India has a rising and flourishing middle group. Nevertheless, much remains to be done since the government interferes where it need not, in ever ything. from petroleum mining to nightclubs, and fails to control the essential services that it should like, civilized roads, a steady power allotment infrastructure, and excellent primary education. Important steps in India’s economy impetus Trade liberalization, monetary liberalization, levy improvements and opening up to overseas reserves were several of the significant steps, which aided Indian economy to achieve impetus. The financial liberalization initiated by Man Mohan Sigh in 1991, then finance Minister in the administration of P V Narsimha Rao, confirmed to be the springboard for Indian financial modification movements. Challenges faced by Indian economy in 2006-07 fiscal years In order for the Indian financial system to uphold its present status and to achieve the goal of GDP of 10% for fiscal year 2006-07, Indian financial system has to conquer many challenges. They include:Advertising Looking for essay on business economics? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More Populace outburst: This is one of the factors consuming into the achievement of India. According to 2001 census of India, the populace was 1,028,610,328 rising at a speed of 2.11% roughly. Such a huge populace puts lots of pressure on financial infrastructure of the state. Therefore, India has to manage its growing inhabitants. Poverty: As research indicates, 36% of the Indian populace was living under the deficiency line in 1993-94. However, this number has reduced in current times but some key steps are required to be taken to eradicate deficiency from India. Unemployment: The rising populace is pressing hard on financial capital as well as occupation chances. Indian administration has started a variety of systems for instance, Self Employment Scheme for Educated Unemployed Youth, but this is confirming to be a drop in the sea. Rural urban divide: India lies in rural community. Even today, when there is a lot of relocation into towns, 70% of the Indian populace still resides in t he rural. There is a very star distinction in speed of countryside and town development. Unless there is a fair growth, Indian financial system cannot grow. Projected Financial Transformations The continued and premeditated financial transformations are the ones that can conquer these challenges (Ahluwalia 2002). They include: One, upholding financial regulation of the economy, two, orientation of communal spending towards regions in which India is faring poorly for instance, health and education sectors, third, initiating of transformations in labor regulations in order to produce more service chances for the rising populace in India. Fourth, is by restructuring of farming sector, introduction of novel expertise, dropping agriculture’s reliance on heavy rain by increasing ways of irrigation, and lastly, introduction of fiscal transformations, including privatization of several communal sector banks. Why there is a distinction between â€Å"pro business† and â€Å"pr o market† policies Pro business and pro market modifications do not create equally exclusive sets. Otherwise, policies that develop the proficiency and output of the present firms, the alleged pro business policies, are a necessary constituent of the neoliberal, pro-market alteration packages. A dispute exists on whether Indian strategy modifications and development accelerations of the precedent 25 years are best understood as a move in the direction of a â€Å"pro-business† direction or a â€Å"pro-market† point (Twomey 1983). Under the pro-business outlook, the government gave favors to the significant private segment, which set free savings and development, but has fundamentally led to â€Å"oligarchic† entrepreneurship (Prakash 1976). By distinction, the pro-market viewpoint sees the combination of concentrated limitations and exterior liberalization as the chief driver of amendments in financial performance, working by means of sensitive aggressive p ressures on firm performance. Indian commercial region, however, is â€Å"standard† in as much as the vibrant affiliation is similar to that of developed countries. India’s economy at the end of the 1970s was so strongly prohibited that liberalization on roughly any face was definite to improve competence, and would have been suggested by reform-oriented economists (Basu Maertens 2007). Furthermore, it was the existing political financial system of alterations rather than any bright comprehension that â€Å"pro-business† rule modification would lead to huge and permanent payoffs that accounts for an incomplete spotlight of the policy transformation on the current firms. In the 1980s, politicians were still frightened of being perceived as turning away from communism. Therefore, they chose small policy alterations to huge ones, and secret ones to obvious ones (Balakrishnan 2010). Consequently, they decided to go for the alterations that could be initiated severe ly within the obtainable policy structure rather than those concerning an alteration in the structure itself (Prakash 1976). As predicted, the changes outstandingly included aptitude extension by the accessible firms, regularization of aptitude that had been formed secretly, broad twisting of products under the accessible endorsed aptitude, and better admission to introduced raw resources (Delong 2003). Conclusion In reference to the above research, India is on its way to become the third most industrial nation in the world. Though this is projected, the country seems to have come a long way in order to balance its economy. Before the 1990 reforms, the economy was performing well but much of the performance was enhanced by borrowing finances from other resources. However, the 1990 reforms seem to have boosted this and now India is steadier in terms of its financial basis. India opted to create a â€Å"pro-business† environment as opposed to a â€Å"pro-market† one, whe reby a healthy society of private entrepreneurship and some inspiring companies were formed. This liberation of commerce, joined with small-scale entrepreneurship is likely to uphold escalation in the 6 to 7% range; but hastening development will need actions that are more drastic. This region is now certain enough to push for more modification, but its authority should not be overrated. References Ahluwalia, MS 2002, ‘Economic Reforms in India since 1991: Has Gradualism Worked’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol.16, pp. 67-88. Balakrishnan, P, 2010, Economic Growth in India, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Basu, K, Maertens, A 2007, ‘The pattern and causes of economic growth in India’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 23, pp.143-167. Bosworth, B, Collins, SM 2007, Accounting for growth: comparing China and India, Cambridge, Mass, National Bureau of Economic Research. Broadberry, SN, Gupta, B 2005, The early modern great divergence: wages, pri ces and economic development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800, London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. Delong, B 2003, â€Å"India since Independence: An Analytical Growth Narrative† in Rodrik, D (ed). In Search of Prosperity: Analytical Narratives on Economic Growth, Princeton University Press, Princeton. Parthasarathi, P 1998, ‘Rethinking Wages and Competitiveness in the Eighteenth Century: Britain and South India’, Past and Present, vol. 158, pp. 79-109. Prakash, O1976, ‘Bullion for Goods: International Trade and the Economy of Early Eighteenth Century Bengal’, Indian Economic Social History Review, vol.13, pp.159-186. Roy, T 2000, The economic history of India, 1857-1947, New Delhi, Oxford University Press. Roy, T 2002, ‘Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol.16, pp.109-130. Srinivasan, TN, Tendulkar, SD 2003, Reintegrating India with the world economy, Institute of Internat ional economics, Washington D.C. Twomey, MJ 1983, ‘Employment in Nineteenth Century Indian Textiles’, Explorations in Economic History, vol. 20, pp. 37-57. 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Racism and Prejudice essays In my eight grade at Earl warren, I witnessed numerous amounts of prejudice and racism. Not saying names about certain specific people but this said designated person is a female. Ive known this girl since about the 2nd or 3rd grade so I know about her school life well enough to be able to tell this story. To my knowledge, I feel she grew up, at school, with a pleasant life as a young girl. She wasnt really known to be one of the prettiest girls, but I guess she could be considered a little sweet heart. As the years progressed, we already hit the fourth grade at Skyline Elementary School. School started off as a new-sprung and fresh start for her little life. Even though there was more to come in her new days, there was probably more that she would encounter that she wouldve ever expected. It kills me to still think about this, but older people in the 6th grade had already been introduced to smoking and drinking. This once pleasant girl had a rendezvous with her new coming future. As known to this day adolescent minds should not come to face with such horrors. She started to hang out with the older more mature kids a mature kids, how had better experience with the subject, which had caused her young, innocent mind to be penetrated beyond its boundaries to a new step in her life. While, the months and years proceeded by in a normal fashion her way of life confronted a huge U-turn. For instance, she started to dress in a gothic manner of wearing all dark and gloomy colors as if you changed into a totally different person. This came to conclude with major prejudices from our fellow classmates. I know how people thought in 5th and 6th grade and to people in that degree of age that was thought to be really weird. Kids just thought that because she wore constant black and glum colors that she was scary and dumb. I dont know what anyone else thinks, but saying someone is scary, m ...

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts were four national security bills passed by the 5th U.S. Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President John Adams in the midst of fears that a war with France was imminent. The four laws restricted the rights and actions of U.S. immigrants and limited the First Amendment freedom of speech and freedom of the press rights. The four acts- the Naturalization Act, the Alien Friends Act, the Alien Enemies Act, and the Sedition Act- increased the minimum U.S. residency requirement for the naturalization of aliens from five to fourteen years; empowered the President of the United States to order aliens considered â€Å"dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States† or who came from a hostile county deported or imprisoned; and restricted speech that criticized the government or government officials.   Alien and Sedition Acts Key Takeaways The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the 5th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President John Adams.The four national security bills were passed amid fears that a war with France could not be avoided.The four acts were: the Naturalization Act, the Alien Friends Act, the Alien Enemies Act, and the Sedition Act.The Alien and Sedition Acts restricted the rights and actions of immigrants and limited the freedoms of speech and of the press contained in the Constitution’s First Amendment.The Sedition Act, limiting the freedoms of speech and of the press, was by far the most controversial of the four laws.The Alien and Sedition Acts were also a part of a power struggle between America’s first two political parties; the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party. While presented on the premise of preparing for war, the laws were also part of a larger power struggle between the nation’s first two political parties- the Federalist Party and the Anti-federalist, Democratic-Republican Party. The negative public opinion of the Federalist-backed Alien and Sedition Acts proved a major factor in the controversial 1800 presidential election, in which Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated incumbent federalist President John Adams. The Political Aspect When John Adams was elected as the second President of the United States in 1796, his Federalist Party, which favored a strong federal government, had started losing its political dominance. Under the Electoral College system at the time, Thomas Jefferson, of the opposing Democratic-Republican Party, had been elected as Adams’ vice president. Democratic-Republicans- especially Jefferson- believed the states should have more power and accused the Federalists of trying to turn the United States into a monarchy.   When the Alien and Sedition Acts came before Congress, the laws’ Federalist backers argued they would strengthen America’s security during the looming war with France. Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans opposed the laws, calling them an attempt to silence and disenfranchise voters who disagreed with the Federalist Party by violating the right of freedom of speech in the First Amendment. At a time when most immigrants supported Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans, the Naturalization Act raised the minimum residency requirement to qualify for American citizenship from five to 14 years.The Alien Friends Act empowered the president to deport or jail any immigrant deemed to be â€Å"dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States† at any time.The Alien Enemies Act authorized the president to deport or jail any male immigrant above age 14 from a â€Å"hostile nation† during times of war.Finally, and most controversially, the Sedition Act restricted speech considered critical of the federal government. The law prevented people accused of violating the Sedition Act from using the fact that their critical statements had been true as a defense in court. As a result, several newspaper editors who criticized the Federalist Adams administration were convicted of violating the Sedition Act. The XYZ Affair and the Threat of War Their fight over the Alien and Sedition Acts was just one example of how America’s first two political parties were split over foreign policy. In 1794, Britain was at war with France. When Federalist President George Washington signed the Jay Treaty with Britain it greatly improved Anglo-American relations but enraged France, America’s Revolutionary War ally.   Shortly after taking office in 1797, President John Adams tried to smooth things over with France by sending diplomats Elbridge Gerry, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and John Marshall to Paris to meet face-to-face with French foreign minister, Charles Talleyrand. Instead, Talleyrand sent three of his representatives- referred to as X, Y, and Z by President Adams- who demanded a $250,000 bribe and a $10 million loan as conditions of meeting with Talleyrand. After the U.S. diplomats rejected Talleyrand’s demands, and the American people became angered by the so-called XYZ Affair, fears of an outright war with France spread. While it never escalated beyond a series of naval confrontations, the resulting undeclared Quasi-War with France further strengthened the Federalists argument for passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.   Sedition Act Passage and Prosecutions Not surprisingly, the Sedition Act evoked the most heated debate in the Federalist-controlled Congress. In 1798, as it is today, sedition is defined as the crime of creating a revolt, disturbance, or violence against lawful civil authority- the government- with the intent to cause its overthrow or destruction. Loyal to Vice President Jefferson, the Democratic-Republican minority argued the Sedition Act violated the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of speech and the press. However, President Adams’ Federalist majority prevailed, arguing that under both U.S. and British common law, seditious acts of libel, slander, and defamation had long been punishable offenses and that freedom of speech should not protect seditious false statements. President Adams signed the Sedition Act into law on July 14, 1798, and by October, Timothy Lyon, a Democratic-Republican congressman from Vermont, had become the first person convicted of violating the new law. During his current reelection campaign, Lyon had published letters criticizing Federalist Party policies in Republican-leaning newspapers. A grand jury indicted him on charges sedition for publishing material with â€Å"intent and design† to defame the U.S. government in general and President Adams personally. Acting as his own defense attorney, Lyon argued that he had no intent to harm the government or Adams by publishing the letters and that Sedition Act was unconstitutional. Despite being supported by popular opinion, Lyon was convicted and sentenced to four months in jail and fined $1,000, a sizable amount at a time when members of the House received no salary and were paid only a $1.00 per diem. While still in prison, Lyon easily won reelection and later overcame a Federalist motion to expel him from the House. Perhaps of more historic interest was the Sedition Act conviction of political pamphleteer and journalist James Callender. In 1800, Callender, originally a backer of Republican Thomas Jefferson, was sentenced to nine months in jail for what a grand jury called his â€Å"false, scandalous, and malicious writing, against the said President of the United States,† then Federalist John Adams. From jail, Callender continued to write widely-published articles supporting Jefferson’s 1800 campaign for president. After Jefferson won the controversial 1800 presidential election, Callender demanded that he be appointed to a postmaster position in return for his â€Å"services.† When Jefferson refused, Callender turned on him, taking his revenge by publishing the first evidence supporting the long-rumored claim that Jefferson had fathered children by his slave Sally Hemings. Including Lyon and Callender, at least 26 people- all opposing the Adams administration- were prosecuted for violating the Sedition Act between 1789 and 1801. The Legacy of the Alien and Sedition Acts Prosecutions under the Sedition Act spurred protests and widespread debate over the meaning of freedom of the press in the context of political speech. Credited as being the deciding factor in Jefferson’s election in 1800, the law represented the worst mistake of John Adams’ presidency. By 1802, all of the Alien and Sedition Acts except the Alien Enemies Act had been allowed to expire or had been repealed. The Alien Enemies Act remains in effect today, having been amended in 1918 to allow the deportation or imprisonment of women. The law was used during World War II to order the confinement of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent in internment camps until the end of the war. While the Sedition Act violated key provisions of the First Amendment, the current practice of â€Å"Judicial Review,† empowering the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of laws and executive branch actions had not yet been perfected. Sources and Further Reading â€Å"The Alien and Sedition Acts: Defining American Freedom.† Constitutional Rights Foundationâ€Å"Alien and Sedition Acts.† The Avalon Project at Yale Law School  Ã¢â‚¬Å"Our Documents: Alien and Sedition Acts.† National Archives and Records Administrationâ€Å"The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office.† The Washington Post (September 8, 2018)Ragsdale, Bruce A. â€Å"The Sedition Act Trials.† Federal Judicial Center (2005)

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