Question

What are the criticisms of fiscal policy

Answer 1

Answer:

Fiscal policy is the adjustment of tax rate and government spending that is used to handle current economic situation.

There are several of criticism that usually found on fiscal policies.

- Time Lags.

The effect of fiscal policies could only be felt years after the policies are made. Often times, this goes unnoticed by the citizens of the country, making it look like that the government took no action to handle their economic issues.

- Strengthening foreign influence

One of the things that the government can do to reduce the inflation is by selling government bonds to the public. These bonds can be bought by companies from another countries. This will strengthen that country's influence over US economy.

- It could create a budget deficit for the next government officials.

Government in United States were reshuffled between 2-4 years. While the effect of fiscal policies could need more than 10 years before it actually can be felt.  Sometimes, fiscal policies taken by previous government could create a deficit that had to be handled by the next government after the election.