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Social Studies
Understanding Taxes
Taxation and fiscal policy in the United States

Grade Levels:
9-12
Length:
15 minutes
Taping Rights:
Unlimited
MARC Record:
Downloadable
Teaching Materials:
See Below

Understanding Taxes links issues of taxation and fiscal policy to the high school curriculum in social studies, business education, and economics. It will help students understand how taxation influences decisions they have to make in their lives, including those in the working world, the consumer marketplace, and the polling place. The programs help students understand why there are taxes, how taxes and tax exemptions can influence people’s behavior, how changes in taxes can affect the rate of employment and the rate of inflation, and what constitutes a fair tax.


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2003/04 Block Feeds

Block Feed: Programs 101-109 Program Details
2 hours, 15 minutes
    Thursday, November 20 at 6:00 am on KET3
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<% my $dbh; $| = 1; # No output buffering. $ENV{PATH}=''; use strict; use PerlEx::DBI; use KET::PerlEx; use KET::Schedule; use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; my $dbh = DBI->connect( "DBI:ODBC:tvschedule", undef, undef, {LongReadLen=>2000, LongTruncOk=>0}); # ReOpenDatabase allows for persistent connections. if (!$dbh) { print "Could not open database.\n"; exit 1; # Will trigger PerlEx to reload channel. } my $nola = $cgi->param('nola') ; my $nola_root = $cgi->param('nola_root') ; #print "nola is [$nola]
\n"; #print "nola_root is [$nola_root]
\n"; if (!$nola && !$nola_root) { print "

No nola code specified in $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME}

\n"; exit; } my $header = $cgi->param('header'); my $where_nola = nola2where($nola, $nola_root); #print "

WHERE $where_nola
\n"; # ( nola = 'MAST 001234' OR nola = 'MAST 009999' OR nola = 'MAST 112233' OR nola_root = 'MAST' OR nola_root = 'BARF' ) $where_nola =~ s/nola /block_nola /g; $where_nola =~ s/nola_root = '(.{4,6})'/block_nola like '$1\%'/g; #print "

WHERE $where_nola
\n"; my $where_time = ""; my $start_date = (time - 1 * (86400)); my $stop_date = (time + 360 * (86400)); if ($cgi->param('start_date')) { $start_date = SQL2epoch($cgi->param('start_date'), "00:00"); $where_time .= " and epoch_time >= $start_date "; } if ($cgi->param('stop_date')) { $stop_date = SQL2epoch($cgi->param('stop_date'), "23:59"); $where_time .= " and epoch_time <= $stop_date "; } # print "Start_date is " . (scalar localtime($start_date)) . "
\n"; # print "Stop_date is " . (scalar localtime($stop_date)) . "
\n"; # print "where_time is $where_time
\n"; my $statement = qq[ select e.nola, e.title, e.subtitle, e.description, e.program_num, e.seconds_exact from episode e where e.nola in (select block.nola from block join event on block.block_nola = event.nola where $where_nola $where_time) order by e.nola ]; # print "sth:

\n$statement\n
"; if (length($where_nola) < 3) { #print "where_nola too short: [$where_nola] ... bypassing select
\n"; $statement = "select 'nullop' where 0 = 1"; } #print "
$statement
"; my $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement) or warn "Can't prepare sth:
$statement
"; $sth->execute() or warn "Can't execute sth:
\n$statement\n
";; %> <% my ($row, $OUT, $some_title, $various_titles); while ($row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) { my $pretty_seconds = pretty_seconds($row->{seconds_exact}); $pretty_seconds = "$pretty_seconds." if $pretty_seconds; $OUT .= <
$row->{title} $row->{program_num}. $row->{subtitle}
$row->{description} $pretty_seconds

END_ONE_ROW if ($some_title) { if ($some_title ne $row->{title}) { $various_titles = 1; } } else { $some_title = $row->{title}; } } if ($various_titles) { #print "Including titles
\n"; $OUT =~ s[] []g; } else { #print "Omitting monotonous title
\n"; $OUT =~ s[.*?] []g; } if ($OUT) { print "$header \n
\n $OUT \n
"; } %>

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