The American public is generally content to defer to the opinions of experts in the fields of health care, environmental protection, and energy when deciding what public policies the United States should pursue because the public recognizes that it

The ________ is not easy to administer, and it sometimes bears little relationship to taxpayers' income or other measures of their ability to pay. It has been described as the "least fair" tax in U.S. public opinion surveys

A. sales tax B. property tax C. individual income tax D. severance tax E. corporate income tax

When people show certain patterns in responding to survey questions, like tending to give low ratings regardless of question content, they are showing

a. satisficing. b. optimizing. c. response bias. d. impression management.