News From the Nest- Spotlight on Learning: Should the Rich Be Taxed
Spotlight On Learning
Presented by: Ms. Nimmy Sidhu
Subject: Economics 12
Driving Question: Should the Rich Pay More Tax?
TEACHER DESCRIPTION and/or REFLECTION:
In this project, students reflected on the impact, both positive and negative, on increasing taxes on the rich. Students were asked to consider economic, legal, and social implications of taxing the rich more, and to consider if this was a possible solution for alleviating poverty.
STUDENT REFLECTIONS:
This project really made me consider what it meant to tax the rich more and to consider if this was the easy solution it sounds like. I now understand how complicated this question is. It’s not as simple as taking from the rich and giving to the poor even if you want to. It made me consider how increasing taxes on the rich often doesn’t work because they find ways around paying, and how at the same time taxation decreases innovation and can hurt an economy. But in conclusion, we feel that the rich should have to pay higher taxes and the governments should figure out how to make sure they do.