Tuesday, December 3, 2013

3Dec13

Many of you told me yesterday that one important weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that it didn't give the federal government the power to tax. Why is being able to collect taxes from citizens so important?

84 comments:

Abby S. said...

They didn't want taxes taken because the British was taking Money when the brotish was in controll.

Jaimee H said...

So you can pay for war and other expenses.

Cierra D said...

Taxing is important because it helps the goverment pay for certain things that helps the states .

Mickey D said...

why it is important for them to collect tax is so they can earn money

Carly T. said...

because it is impoatant to get money for the govnmrnt .

Dylan M said...

so they don`t get into deep money then they got to pay more than they have to.

Megan B said...

because they could pay for war and pay things for the country

Orion D. said...

It is so important to tax because then the government would be able to buy more things and they would be able to Pay their debts

Jalen P said...

Being able to collect taxes are important because the government needs money to pay off the war they just fought.

Charmel W. said...

Collecting taxes is important because the government has to pay off their debts to pay for everyday things, such as businesses, buildings, etc.

allie.S said...

Its important to get money because the government needs money if not the country will be poor.

Adrien T said...

its important for people to be tax because you cant pay of your goverment debt and you cant pay for soldiers hospitials and

Madison s said...

So they can pay off debt.

Jamaica b said...

Paying off dept

Zachary H. said...

It's important for the goverment to tax because they need to pay off for war and aging of dept

aaron j said...

this is so important because that is the way the goverment gets its money

Bryant h said...

If they didn't then the government wouldn't have any money

Stanleyc said...

It's important because they need the money the government and the military to be supported to be able to by food and ammo.

Gianna P said...

Using taxes to pay for war.

Amber l said...

Using taxes to pay for war.

shamore m said...

using taxes to pay for war

Cameron C. said...

So it cany help out the city and the people.

Brandon B said...

To pay off the debt from the war

MercedesF said...

its so important because, the confederation has qualities that the government need the taxes to protect all the states.

Erin R. said...

It is important to collect taxes from citizens because the taxes help pay for wars and government.

alexandria s said...

cause thats where they get there money from .

jada p. said...

because the citizens are using there stuff and they think they would put taxes on the citizens.

Zaniah said...

It's important because without taxes there's no money

Kyleigh F. said...

It's important because the taxes go to the army for our defense.

tyrez s said...

they use textes to pay for war

Westen,m said...

Because taxes pay for stuff that the citizens need

Nayana,W said...

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Taxes the gonvernment couldent collect

camdin. c said...

Without being able to collect taxes the government had no army, schools, buildings, stores, houses or anything the taxes help the government build that stuff

Kieron H. said...

To pay for our army and there weapons to help keep us say





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Derrick l said...

To pay for the military

brennan m said...

They needed to pay for troops and other government payments

Kylie H said...

The government needs money for the people to live

Hailey C said...

so they have funding for the state.

Ronnelle B said...

pay for military.. :)

Harleigh W said...

The taxes help pay for the army and other things that protects us

anna d said...

so the government has money to pay for other suff

Keith c. said...

It is important to tax because we need the money to pay for our protection (army, weapons,amunition, ect.)

Kylie H said...

The government needs taxes from everyone to have money for the city and buildings

Blaine A said...

We need taxes for our amy to fight

Caleb T said...

so you can pay for the militarys gun and bullets other things

Kemon E. said...

Paying taxing

Audrey R said...

The government could not pay its depts from the Revolutionary War.

roy,j said...

to pay the people that protact are country

Alainna j (aj) said...

The Goverment taxes us because so they can provide goods

Michael b said...

They pay for supples and have for their armor

David b said...

Money for that state

Rachael B. said...

Taxes are so important because that's how they pay for the military.

tyler s. said...

being able to collect taxes is important because if you dont tax citizens will have alot more money they will have money if you dont tax you would lots of money left over

Shealaw said...

Taxes are important because that money goes to pay for supplies for the army,military,navy etc.

Kylie H said...

The government collected taxes so that the city or town could have money for buildings

Michael D said...

It is important because the government needs the money to pay for the military.

kKemon E. said...

kemon said

they need money

A-a-ron said...

If you can collect taxes you have power.

Morgan C. said...

Because they couldn't repair war damage and pay for army's and stuff.

Casey U said...

to help pay for roads , the military and other govt. needs

David C. said...

It helps pay for things like the military.

Madison W. said...

Taxes pay for important and vital things, like a military. Without taxes, for the simple reason that the government had no power to collect them, there wasn't a military because there was no way to pay for it. The taxes also paid for debts, which the new colonies had a lot of, and there was no money to use for that payment.

Cameron H said...

so the government could have more money than the citizens cause government very weak

Cheyenne R said...

so they could pay there armys and health for there goverment

Camryn C said...

It's important because we need to the tax money to pay for military services!

Natalie k. said...

That way the gov. has money to repay the debt of the war

Wilkins, M said...

Being able to collect taxes is important because the government wouldn't be able to pay for war.

hunter n. said...

they get money for projects and new buildings from taxes

Dakota Z said...

They need to collect taxes to be able to pay their military.

Ann A said...

when you collect taxes it help to pay for the war

c said...

It is important because after the war, the americans were independent and in debt, so therefore the tax money the american people would pay would go to soldiers and other problems so them not taxing anybody would ruin their independent country.

John B said...

one is because if you don't pay, you'll have no home

Albert F said...

collecting taxes from the citizens was important because the government need money to pay for the military and all the services provided for the country.

joshuat said...

so they can collect money for the evierment

staceys said...

it was important to get taxt because they did give federal and so that people can get there money

Kiara W. said...

Being able to collect taxes from citizens was very important because the tax money helped pay for equipment for the military because the military is what made them strong states and without the military they wouldn't be anything because they need to be protected and the military protects them !

Dj, P said...

To pay for there war an army that comes over.

paul w said...

to pay for the gov.army weapons

symone g said...

so they can pay the soldiers to go to war and pay the taxes

Kyrin d g said...

To help pay of the debts to the other nation because of the war.

Drew M. said...

so the states could buy things for their states

Kameryn P. said...

money needed to be payed off from the revolutionary war

makayla h said...

to earn extra money for the area

Brandon H said...

Money needed to be played off from the revolutiomaln war