Which of the following statements is correct? a. antitrust laws are always the best way to limit monopoly power. b. marginal-cost pricing requires a natural monopoly to earn zero economic profits. c. it is possible that the best approach to monopolies is for the government to do nothing. d. public ownership is preferred to regulation in order to minimize the deadweight losses associated with natural monopolies.

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60