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March 4, 2020Any topic (writer’s choice)
March 4, 2020I need you to analyze all of these 8 sources!
The purpose of this assignment is to aid students in analyzing sources. Students are to evaluate several potential sources that could be used for an essay. You will need to judge the quality of the eight sources given below. In a paragraph or two for each source, the student should describe it and evaluate its quality. The student should not just ascribe a high or low quality to the source, but discuss the reasoning behind those conclusions. Hopefully, after reading and analyzing these sources you will also have a good handle on the topic and some of its major arguments and issues.
The 8 Sources for Govt 2305 & 2306 Fall 2018 Writing Assignment topic of Regressive Taxation in Texas:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/in-texas-the-joys-of-no-income-tax-the-agonies-of-the-other-kinds.html
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tax-cuts-are-big-texas-not-low-income-residents
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Brown-Texas-has-a-revenue-problem-and-it-s-11091993.php
https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/sep/17/states-income-taxes-surprising-inequality-burden
https://forabettertexas.org/images/BT_2013_03_PP_WhoPaysTaxes.pdf
https://www.texaspolicy.com/library/doclib/2006-02-PP-taxincidence-bs.pdf
https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/15/pf/taxes/poor-state-taxes/index.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2015/01/30/regressive-taxes-are-neither-new-nor-good/#2940ffe45f15
