Assignment Instructions
In essay format, provide well-developed responses to the following questions:
- How are tax policy, economic policy and political ideology (particularly liberalism and conservatism) related?
- How was this relationship demonstrated in the financial crisis of 2008?
- Which policy-making model or models best describe the federal response to the crisis?
- Were they the best models for dealing with this crisis? If not, which model or models do you think would have been better?
- Explain your answers.
Don’t provide separate answers to the questions. Instead, develop a unified essay based on a unique claim or observation that serves as your unifying idea – the main point, or thesis, of your essay. Use the questions to guide your thinking toward a thesis. Your answers to the questions should then function as supporting points for your thesis. In developing your answers to the questions, provide evidence or examples with explanations that support and refer to your essay’s main, unifying idea.
Format
Papers should:
- be completed in essay format, typed/word-processed, single-spaced, 12-point font, 3-4 pages each,
- apply acceptable standards of university-level writing style, grammar, punctuation usage, and spelling,
- demonstrate depth of analysis in the application and integration of material covered in the module,
- be compliant with APA citation and format style,