Taxes can be justified if the government uses the revenue to (i) provide public goods such as national defense. (ii) clean up negative externalities such as water pollution. (iii) regulate a common resource such as fish in a public lake. (iv) provide goods with positive externalities such as medical research.

Determining effects of stock splits oracle corp has had the following stock splits since its inception. effective date split amount october 12, 2000 2 for 1 january 18, 2000 2 for 1 february 26, 1999 3 for 2 august 15, 1997 3 for 2 april 16, 1996 3 for 2 february 22, 1995 3 for 2 november 8, 1993 2 for 1 june 16,1989 2 for 1 december 21, 1987 2 for 1 march 9, 1987 2 for 1 a. if the par value of oracle shares was originally $2, what would oracle corp. report as par value per share on its 2015 balance sheet? compute the revised par value after each stock split. round answers to three decimal places.