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To resolve Social Security’s looming financial shortfalls, one proposal is to increase the program’s payroll tax rate from 12.4% to 15.07%. If this idea is adopted, how much in added taxes would the average wage earner pay during a 45-year career?

Excise taxes are similar to sales taxes, except that they are imposed on specific goods and services, often to discourage or penalize certain activities. Which households pay the highest portion of their income in federal excise taxes?

Will the price controls in Obamacare affect Medicare patients’ access to care?

What portion of Americans’ household food spending is used for eating out?

Are public school students legally allowed to speak about God or spiritual matters in their homework, verbal presentations, and other school assignments?

In 2011, how much of U.S. petroleum consumption was imported from the Persian Gulf?

Measured as a portion of the U.S. economy, was the 2013 federal fiscal year deficit higher or lower than the average deficit of the fiscal years that occurred solely under the presidency of George W. Bush (without any overlap with Clinton or Obama)?

In 2010, the lowest-earning 20% of U.S. households had an average income of $30,800. What portion of that income came from government programs?

Who is known as the “Father of the U.S. Constitution” for his central role in its formation?

Because federal law requires most hospital emergency rooms to treat everyone, uninsured poor people use emergency rooms to get free care for non-emergency conditions. When the uninsured enroll in Medicaid, do they visit emergency rooms less or more often?