Civic Participation

what is civic engagement?

• working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference

• to work in civic engineering

• an engagement between the different types of political parties

• The way to be a good citizen at the end of the day

why is civic engagement important

• it is important because it can make people closer together

• it is important cause it makes people more healthy

• It is important because it can make your country how you want it to be.

• It is important because it lets people be up to date on everything that's going on in that country and change what needs to be changed.

how important is it to be engaged in civic participation

• very

• not much

• pretty

• very little

what are some examples of civic participation

• pay taxes

• participate in protests

• voting/signing a petition

• playing a sport

what can voting do for your country

• nothing cause the leader doesn't care

• lets one person get what they want

• makes people do protests

• It lets people get what they want as a group

what can happen if you don't vote?

• you get what you want

• Your voice is not heard and you are less likely to get what you want and you can't complain if it's not what you wanted

• everything goes your way

• trump gets elected

how many people didn't vote in the 2016 election?

• 49% of 830,478,289 people

• 46.9% of 231,556,622 people

• 47.8% of 120,789,238 people

• 68% of 83,237,829

What would have happened if the people who didn't vote did vote.

• Most likely Hillary would be pressident

• More people would have got what they wanted

• Trump still would have been president

• people would still complain about trump being elected

Where do sales tax go to

• government

• state

• city

• world

What does the state do with the money it gets from the taxes

• Goes to the general funds of the state that can help us in the long run.

• Sent to the cities then goes back to you

• Sent to a different country

• Sent to the countries government.