Progressivism

• You do NOT need to believe in Progressivism to do this assignment. In politics, you should
understand what kinds of arguments the other side is using.
• There are 27 Graphs to Analyze, 4 explanation, and 100 questions to do.
• You get 25 “Skips” use them carefully! Number them as you use them like “Skip 1” “Skip 2”
• My own advice don’t waste skips on what does graph tell you. You can find something for
that
• US Budget is in Deficit Currently.
• Progressivism mathematically brings in more revenue
• Additional Revenue could be used to Lower the Deficit OR it could be used to spend more on
Public Goods and Services to help people in lower income brackets.
•
Graph A) The graph below shows how much 1. What does this Graph tell
income is earned by a household at any given you?
percentile in the income distribution, based (Think things like title, axis,
on these new numbers for 2011: trends)

2. How would a Progressive

use this data to argue America
should raise taxes on rich?

3. How would a conservative argue

these graphs are designed to trick
people and not to fall for it ((IE
they don’t mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph B: Share of pre-tax household income 4. What does this Graph tell you?
held by the top 1%, top 0.1% and top 0.01% (Think things like title, axis, trends)

5. How would a
Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

6. How would a conservative argue

these graphs are designed to trick
people and not to fall for it ((IE they
don’t mean you should raise taxes on
rich)
Graph C)
Income

9. How would a conservative

7. What does this Graph 8. How would a argue these graphs are designed
tell you? Progressive use this data to to trick people and not to fall for it
(Think things like title, argue America should raise ((IE they don’t mean you should
axis,trends) taxes on rich? raise taxes on rich)
Graph D) Income Ratios with Middle Class
being 1 10. What does this Graph tell you?
(Think things like title, axis, trends)

11. How would a Progressive

use this data to argue America
should raise taxes on rich?

12. How would a conservative

Gold and above: Richest of Rich argue these graphs are
Dark Blue – Gold: Rich designed to trick people and
From Light Green – Dark Blue: UMC not to fall for it ((IE they don’t
Blue Middle Class. (Really from L to D Green) n mean you should raise taxes
Dark Green to Red: LMC on rich)
Red and Below: Poor
Graph C

13. How are Graphs

C and D Similar?

Graph D Income Ratios

14. How are
Graphs C and D
Different?
Graph E) Net worth and financial wealth distribution in the U.S.

15. What
does this
Graph tell
you?
(Think
things like
title, axis,
trends)

17. How would a conservative argue

16. How would a these graphs are designed to trick
Progressive use this data to people and not to fall for it ((IE they
argue America should raise don’t mean you should raise taxes on
taxes on rich? rich)
Graph F) Shows Yearly Income by Race:
19. How would a Progressive use this
data to argue America should raise
taxes on rich?
18. What does this
Graph tell you?
(Think things like
title, axis, trends)
20. How would a conservative argue
these graphs are designed to trick
people and not to fall for it ((IE they
don’t mean you should raise taxes on
rich)
Graph G) :

21. What does this 22. How would a 23. How would a conservative argue
Graph tell you? Progressive use this these graphs are designed to trick
(Think things like data to argue America people and not to fall for it ((IE they
title, axis, trends) should raise taxes on don’t mean you should raise taxes on
rich? rich)
Graph H: The actual United States wealth
distribution plotted against the estimated and
ideal distributions. Video Link
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

26. How would a

24. What does this Graph 25. How would a conservative argue these
tell you? Progressive use this data graphs are designed to
(Think things like title, axis, to argue America should trick people and not to
trends) raise taxes on rich? fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph I:
28. Do you notice in the
notes where it says “2016”
Dollars. That is to account
for what 1 Word?
27. What does this
Graph tell you?
(Think things like title,
axis, trends)
30. How would a
29. How would a conservative argue these
Progressive use this data graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich? fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph J: 31. S&P 500 is a
common stock
market. How
do you think a
companies
profits impact
companies stock
price?

34. How would a

conservative argue these
32. What does this Graph 33. How would a
graphs are designed to
tell you? Progressive use this data
trick people and not to
(Think things like title, axis, to argue America should
fall for it ((IE they don’t
trends) raise taxes on rich?
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph K:
35. What
happened to rich
category on this
chart?

38. How would a

conservative argue these
36. What does this Graph 37. How would a graphs are designed to
tell you? Progressive use this data trick people and not to
(Think things like title, axis, to argue America should fall for it ((IE they don’t
trends) raise taxes on rich? mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph L: State Taxes 39. What
happened to rich
category on this
chart?

42. How would a

40. What does this Graph 41. How would a conservative argue these
tell you? Progressive use this data graphs are designed to
(Think things like title, axis, to argue America should trick people and not to
trends) raise taxes on rich? fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
43. Perfect Equality line would
everyone makes the same. What
would we call that line?

44. The farther the Income curve is

from the line the bigger the gap
between a countries rich and poor
is. Which country X or Y has a
bigger gap between rich and poor?
Graph
M
45. What does this Graph
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

46. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?
47. How would a
conservative argue these
graphs are designed to trick
people and not to fall for it
((IE they don’t mean you
should raise taxes on rich)
Since those are AREA fractions
Gini Index is always a Decimal

48. Would the “Unequal” or

“Very Unequal have a “Bigger
Decimal?
Graph N
Table 12 Percentage Table Country and Gini Coefficient
49. What does this Table
Country
Of Wealth in that
Country owned
Overall Rank The higher this is the
bigger the gap
tell you?
By top 10% wealthiest
(Western (World Wide
between rich and
poor in a country (Think things like title, axis,
Democracies Only) Comparison)
Switzerland
United States
71.3%
69.8
1. Sweden
2. Norway
23.0
25.0
trends)
Denmark 65.0 8. Austria 26.0
France 61.0 10. Germany 27.0
Sweden
UK
58.6
56.0
17. Denmark
25. Australia
29.0
30.5
50. How would a
Canada 53.0 34. Italy 32.0
Norway 50.5 35. Canada 32.1 Progressive use this data
Germany 44.4 37 France 32.7
Finland 42.3 42. Switzerland
43. United Kingdom
33.7
34.0
to argue America should
45. Egypt 34.4 raise taxes on rich?
56. India 36.8
61 Japan 38.1
68. Israel 39.2
81. China 41.5
82. Russia
90. Iran
42.3
44.5
51. How would a
93. United States 45.0
107. Mexico 48.2 conservative argue these
125. Brazil 56.7
133. South Africa 65.0 graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph 0

54. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
52. What does this Table 53. How would a
trick people and not to
tell you? Progressive use this data
fall for it ((IE they don’t
(Think things like title, axis, to argue America should
mean you should raise
trends) raise taxes on rich?
taxes on rich)
Graph P
55. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

56. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

57. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph Q 58. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

59. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

60. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph R
61. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

62. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

63. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph S
64. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

65. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

66. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph T
67. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

68. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

69. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph U
70. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

71. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

72. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph V
73. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

74. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

75. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dMoK48QGL8

76. What income group is the monkey getting grapes and monkey getting cucumbers
suppose to represent?

77. What do you think of the idea that you only feel poor if you have some other income
group to compare to?

78. What does this graph show about

comparing American Poor to Average
Person in developing countries?

79. Deep Thought. Considering the

monkey video + this graph. What would a
progressive say about this graph?
Graph W
80. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

81. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?
82. How would a
conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph X
83. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

84. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

85. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph Y
86. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

87. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

88. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph Z
89. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

90. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

91. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
Graph ZZ
92. What does this Table
tell you?
(Think things like title, axis,
trends)

93. How would a

Progressive use this data
to argue America should
raise taxes on rich?

94. How would a

conservative argue these
graphs are designed to
trick people and not to
fall for it ((IE they don’t
mean you should raise
taxes on rich)
95. Some graphs break the rich only into the Top 20%. What graphs (Use
letters) do this

96. Some graphs break the rich only into more groups like Top 10, or Top
5, or Top 1 %. What graphs (Use letters) do this

97. Which approach do you think is better?

98 Why do you think some progressives tie the issue to race or gender?

99 Which graph do you think makes strongest argument to Tax the rich
more? Why??

100 Which graph do you think makes weakest argument to Tax the rich
more? Why??
 Extra Credit Bonus
So this project is worth 50 points and you are
allowed 25 skips. If you use less skips you can
go back and get extra credit.
0 - 10 skips = 5 Points of Extra Credit
11-15 skips = 3 points of Extra Credit
16-20 skips = 1 point
Make sure you number your skips and say at the end how many you think you used and how much ec.
Yes, please number and count carefully because Mr. Lynch will need to check the count
 When done
If you finish project earlier than others, you can
work on your normal unit4 packet including
Cornell Notes, or the small writing piece in
there.

Project is due: