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| a system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated perfromance rather than on political patronage |
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| a system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends |
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| method whereby represtatatives of the union and the employer dertermine wages, hours and conditions of employment through direct negotiation |
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| a collective bargaining agreement in which both parties agree, in case of dispute over the terms of the union contract, to adhere to the decisions of an arbitrator |
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| full release of government to private firms, including the power to collect revenues |
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tax levied by local and some state governments on real property or personal, tangiable property, the major portion of which is on the estimated value of one's home and land |
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| the valuation a government places on property for the purposes of taxation |
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proving automatic increase to compensate for inflation |
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| general tax on sales transactions, some times exemption food and drugs |
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| a tax on increased value of a product at each stage of production and sitribution rathan than just as the point of sale |
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| a tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay a larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes |
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| consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise, such as tobacco |
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| a tax on the privilege of "serving" such natural resources as coal, oil, timber and gas from the land |
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