Proponents of requiring the government to balance its budget argue that debt burdens future generations. Explain one claim they make to support this argument
High debt means that future taxpayers will have to pay higher taxes or cut government expenditures.
Budget deficits reduce saving and so raise the interest rate, reduce investment spending, and reduce capital accumulation. With less capital, the standard of living will be lower.
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For any given level of output:
A) marginal cost must be greater than average cost. B) average variable cost must be greater than average fixed cost. C) average fixed cost must be greater than average variable cost. D) fixed cost must be greater than variable cost. E) None of the above is necessarily correct.
Several political leaders have proposed that parents be granted a substantially larger reduction in their annual personal income taxes for each child that they raise. The economic way of thinking indicates that legislation of this type would: a. make it more expensive for parents to provide for their children
b. reduce the value of children to their parents and therefore lead to a reduction in the birth rate. c. reduce the after-tax cost of raising children and therefore increase the birth rate. d. exert no impact on either the cost of raising children or the birth rate since parenting children is a non-economic activity.
If the labor supply and demand curves cross at a wage of $20,
a. a wage rate of $10 per hour would lead to an excess demand for labor b. a wage rate of $10 per hour would lead to an excess supply of labor c. that wage causes a high rate of cyclical unemployment d. employees are overpaid e. a wage rate of $10 per hour would mean there is a significant amount of structural unemployment
In common value auctions
a. Every bidder know the value of the object being sold b. Each bidder makes the same estimate of the value of the good c. All bidders know the estimates of the others d. The true value of the item is common across bidders