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Grade 5 Social Studies · World 4: Hard Times · Level 43
What Government Does
Explain taxes, public goods, and public services.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 43
- Government is the fourth sector. It's how people pay together for things they can't easily buy alone.
- Government collects money through taxes. People pay tax on income, on things they buy, and on houses.
- Taxes pay for public goods, things everyone can use, such as roads, parks, and the army.
- Taxes also pay for public services, like schools, firefighters, and police officers. Your own school is paid for this way.
- How much should government do? People have disagreed about that since the New Deal, and voters still decide it at every election.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS5E2.d — Describe the government function in taxation and providing certain public goods and public services.