Answer:
It is more difficult than ever to trust our elected leaders."
B is the answer to your question
A) The government could not issue more currency than it had gold.
As the U.S. was coming to an economic crisis, by 1929 people didn't trust any financial institution anymore and the atmosphere was filled with high speculations about the value of the American currency and other nations' in the near future. As a result, people began to hoard more gold, the strongest asset, its demand increased sharply as well as its prince, and the government could not issue more currency than it had gold.
During the French Revolution, it was mainly the Third Estate that paid the taxes. The tax system before the Revolutionary, many people such as the bibles and the clergy were exempted from taxes. Therefore, it was up to the peasants, wage earners and business classes, etc that had to pay for them