Health care is a merit good the U.S. government provides through a payroll tax. Medicaid is paid for by a payroll tax.
Retirement benefits are provided through a merit tax.
Retirement benefits -- apex.
can the market provide a public goods on its own? government policies about public goods?
Merits goods are the goods that a state or government must provide for its citizens to satisfy their basic necessities.
Goods and services
private companies can not benefit by providing them
consumer-provide labor and investment producer-provide individual goods government-provide public goods
Government spending comes directly from taxes. The government also borrows money.
Discussion of areas of market failure. This will be expressed in general terms - syllabus mentions the government as a producer of goods and services but does not deal with public and merit goods.
These are the organisations where everything is owned and controlled by the government (or local government). These don't produce anything instead provide services. there are some goods like merit goods and public goods which are better provided in public sector.
These are the organisations where everything is owned and controlled by the government (or local government). These don't produce anything instead provide services. there are some goods like merit goods and public goods which are better provided in public sector.
They use taxes to provide public goods and services.