Income taxes are used to fund goods and services and fund the U. S. Government in general. Things like roads, the military for national defense, public healthcare like Medicare and Medicaid, welfare programs for vulnerable people, and so much more that the government does are funded mostly by income taxes. Do you see it as a duty of citizenship, like voting, to pay your income tax?

Suppose that sociologists and cultural anthropologists are tying to measure the amount of child abuse for cross cultural comparison. they run into disagreement over whether spanking a child is abuse or discipline. what problem are they encountering in their research? a. reliability of the definition of abuse. b. validity of the definition of abuse. c. occam's razor about the definition of abuse. d. none of these.