The Policy of Running Deficits and Only Gradually Increasing Taxes

question 31

Multiple Choice

The policy of running deficits and only gradually increasing taxes later to service the debt is referred to as

• A) crowding out.
• B) tax-smoothing.
• C) generational accounting.
• D) Ricardian equivalence.

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