The tax burden for several individuals is as follows:

a person earning $20,000 a year pays a 5 percent tax, a person making $30,000 a year pays a 7 percent tax, and a person earning $40,000 a year pays a 10 percent tax. This particular tax system can best be described as which of the following? a. Sales tax
b. Regressive tax
c. Proportional tax
d. Progressive tax
e. Recapitalized tax

d

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