Melanie operates mel’s bakery in foxboro, massachusetts, and has retail stores in connecticut, maine, massachusetts, new hampshire, and rhode island. mel’s also ships specialty breads nationwide upon request.

a. determine mel’s sales tax collection responsibility and calculate the sales tax liability for massachusetts, connecticut, maine, new hampshire, rhode island, and texas, based on the following information: (leave no answer blank. enter zero if applicable.)
b. the connecticut retail stores have $432,000 in sales ($320,000 from in-store sales and $112,000 from catering) and $14,000 in delivery charges for catering activities.
c. connecticut sales tax is 6 percent and excludes food and bakery products but taxes prepared meals (catering).
d. connecticut also imposes sales tax on delivery charges on taxable sales.

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Suppose that hubert, an economist from an am talk radio program, and kate, an economist from a nonprofit organization on the west coast, are arguing over government bailouts. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: kate: to recent financial crises, the concept of bailouts is a hot topic for debate among everyone these days. hubert: indeed, it’s gotten crazy! a government bailout of severely distressed financial firms is unnecessary because free markets will properly price assets. kate: i don’t know about that. without a bailout of severely distressed financial firms, the economy will experience a deep recession. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due todifferences in scientific judgments . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? business managers can raise profit more easily by reducing costs than by raising revenue. central banks should focus more on maintaining low unemployment than on maintaining low inflation. employers should not be restricted from outsourcing work to foreign nations

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