Consider a system in which a person earning $10,000 pays $1,000 in taxes, a person earning $25,000 pays $2,000 . and someone earning $60,000 pays $4,000 . What type of tax is this?

a. progressive
b. proportional
c. regressive
d. property tax
e. one based on the benefits principle of taxation

C

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