In the Spring of 2001 President George W

question 43

Essay

In the spring of 2001 President George W. Bush proposed a substantial tax cut, when he argued it would increase aggregate demand. If the Ricardian equivalence proposition holds, is President Bush's analysis correct? Why might the Ricardian equivalence proposition not hold?

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