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Helpful Sites/ Bibliography: Martin, Phillip. "Rome Needed Tax Money." // The Roman Republic Fails // N.p., 2011 Web. 31 Jan 2012. <[]>

Mays, Larry W.. "Water Works, Ancient Rome." Water Encyclopedia. Advameg, Inc., 2012. Web. 31 Jan 2012. <[]>.

Heaton, Chris. "Roman Aqueducts." UNRV History. N.p., 2011. Web. 31 Jan 2012. <[]>.

Heaton, Chris. "Roman Roads." UNRV History. N.p., 2011. Web. 31 Jan 2012. <[]>.

KWL Chart:

Facts:
 * 1) They spent too much money on their roads and other public works and they didn’t have enough to fix the public works when they needed it.
 * 2) The Roman Government was hiring people to become “Tax Farmers” they were people who went around and collected the tax money from the citizens of Rome.
 * 3) Tax farmers could collect however much money they wanted from the citizens because there wasn’t a set value. So, they could collect money for themselves.
 * 4) Tax Farmers could charge one person almost nothing and the next a lot of money.
 * 5) The roman government just kept on needing more and more money as the government grew.
 * 6) The tax farmers could take the money for themselves and the government wouldn’t get very much
 * 7) They had to also pay for other things such as government workers so they were running out of money
 * 8) Rome didn’t have a debt program to help pay for houses and other items which might be a reason for their fall.
 * 9) Today libraries have to stop buying new books because they aren’t getting enough tax money to buy them.
 * 10) In the UK only about 12% of their tax money goes to roads and that isn’t enough to keep fixing their roads so they won’t be able to fix them witch will make the roads less safe.
 * 11) One of the things that is getting paid for by taxes is the Brent Space Bridge. It is a bridge witch will help people get to places faster.
 * 12) The Forest hills School District will have to cut many teachers if the levy doesn’t pass. The levy gives them more tax money to run the school district.
 * 13) The amount of money people spend on the public works around here is increasing as more people are getting jobs and paying so there isn’t tons of problems around here.
 * 14) The amount that people spend on taxes is different all around the world. That is why there are many different problems

Questions: What kind of places have been through that? What happened to make them run out of tax money? If they fixed it, how did they do that? Can you propose what would happen to Anderson if the Park district wasn't getting enough tax money to pay for the parks?

Possible Solutions:
 * Paying a small fee to use the public works so when people use it they will gain money to use to help fix up the public works.

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