Given the Budget Structure and Constitutional Limitations Upon Spending and Taxing

question 54

Multiple Choice

Given the budget structure and constitutional limitations upon spending and taxing, legislators seeking to balance the budget are left with

• A) many choices as to how to balance the budget.
• B) few choices as to how to balance the budget.
• C) only one choice as to how to balance the budget.
• D) no other option than to borrow heavily, thereby increasing state debt.
• E) This issue is not discussed in the text and is therefore of no consequence.

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