Taxes & Public Services

Description

What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money

Mastery Evidence

• ✓ Explain what tax is and that most working adults pay it
• ✓ Name at least three things that taxes pay for (schools, hospitals, roads, police, fire service)
• ✓ Describe why taxes are needed (everyone chips in so everyone benefits)