If the Government Takes Over the Distribution of Some Scarce

question 280

Multiple Choice

If the government takes over the distribution of some scarce good in a time of a natural disaster and provides the good at no charge to users,what must also be done?

• A) The government must produce the good itself.
• B) Some rationing mechanism must be set up to determine who gets the good.
• C) Everyone hurt in the natural disaster must get one of the goods.
• D) nothing
• E) Because we live in a democracy, the government must use majority rule as the rationing mechanism.

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