Income taxes are taxes that are paid on any financial gain. purchased goods. homes, land, or property. special goods and activities. why does an excise tax on gasoline exist? check all that apply. to make gasoline prices more competitive to provide funding for healthcare services and education to discourage travel by automobile by making gasoline more expensive to fund highway repairs and other special projects to discourage the use of alternative modes of transportation

3. to discourage travel by automobile by making gasoline more expensive

4. to fund highway repairs and other special projects

the answer is 1.. i think

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.