You have a job at a real-estate agency in the small country of Cocovania, where you are paid 72,000 conchs (the currency of Cocovania) a year. You are now faced with the decision of whether to work a second job at the local university teaching a real-estate investing class, where the pay is 45,000 conchs a year. Social insurance tax and income tax rates are listed below. Social insurance taxes: 7.65% on your first 110,100 conchs of total income

Taxable income (in conchs) Tax rate
0-8,700 10%
8,700-35,350 15%
35,350-85,650 25%
85,650-178,650 28%

Required:
Using the information above, what would be the total amount you pay in social insurance taxes on your second job?

Which of the following is likely not a benefit of requiring a grand jury to listen to and examine all of the evidence against a person suspected of committing a serious crime and then independently deciding whether or not to hand down an indictment? 1.the grand jury system provides the accused another safeguard against being sent to trial and facing conviction based on flawed evidence. 2.the members of the grand jury are drawn from the community and are empowered to render independent decisions about whether or not the government has collected enough evidence to bring an individual to trial. 3.the grand jury’s decision can provide prosecutors insight into what is necessary to build a sufficient case if a similar crime is presented later. 4.the grand jury is impaneled to rubber-stamp prosecutors’ cases, which makes it possible for more cases to reach trial.