In this episode of We The People, taxes are spoken about in detail through music. The lyrics explain the importance of paying taxes and what programs tax dollars are distributed to.

Nathan is trying to rebrand a smoke detector as a musical instrument by including it in a song. He establishes a brand in an attempt to accomplish this.

The city could not afford to pay for a health inspector, resulting in the existence of bugs in the Titans' food. The water was not clean due to the aging with the city pipes. There is no way to pay for these expenses without tax dollars. The Titans realize how the lack of tax dollars reduce the quality of life. They try to bring back the IRS to collect tax money to help keep the community upkeep. They find they can't bring it back, so they decide to be the IRS to collect money to repair the city.

Oscar presents the fiscal year budget to Michael and states that they need to spend their surplus; otherwise, the surplus will be cut from the budget next year. Michael doesn't quite follow, so Oscar explains what a surplus is and uses a lemonade stand example to help him understand the concept.

Norma Rae is a textile factory worker who became involved in labor union activities after the health of her co-workers was put in jeapordy. She refuses to leave work and rallies her co-workers to go on strike and form a union. After she successfully gets every co-worker to stop working, the factory managers intervene and send her to jail in a police car. This is a great clip to use when teaching about the importance of a Triple Bottom Line (People-Profit-Planet) in business, which goes beyond the profit motive.