---
title: "SS3E2: Government Goods and Taxes (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SS3E2
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SS3E2
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - grade-3
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# SS3E2: Government Goods and Taxes

Explain that governments provide certain types of goods and services in a market economy (schools, libraries, roads, police/fire protection, and military) and pay for these through taxes.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: Grade 3, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/grade-3.md

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.