Travis has a 2,400 square foot home. He is a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company and uses one room of his home exclusively for his business. The area of the office is 240 square feet. During the past year, he painted his office and replaced the door at a cost of $500; paid for utilities for his home, $3,000; paid property taxes, $1,500; paid mortgage interest, $3,600; and replaced a door jam and door for his patio, $600. Travis has$ in deductible direct expenses and$ in deductible indirect expenses.

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?

The 39 percent and 38 percent tax rates both represent what is called a tax "bubble." suppose the government wanted to lower the upper threshold of the 39 percent marginal tax bracket from $335,000 to $208,000. what would the new 39 percent bubble rate have to be? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Sauer food company has decided to buy a new computer system with an expected life of three years. the cost is $440,000. the company can borrow $440,000 for three years at 14 percent annual interest or for one year at 12 percent annual interest. assume interest is paid in full at the end of each year. a. how much would sauer food company save in interest over the three-year life of the computer system if the one-year loan is utilized and the loan is rolled over (reborrowed) each year at the same 12 percent rate? compare this to the 14 percent three-year loan.