The Ways the Federal Government Can Finance Its Expenditures

question 63

Multiple Choice

The ways the federal government can finance its expenditures

• A) require selling the Treasury's gold holdings.
• B) number only two: raising and lowering taxes.
• C) are raising taxes, borrowing, and creating new money.
• D) require exporting more than it imports.
• E) all lead to an increase in the national debt.

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