Question

f pressure is put on the government to maintain a balanced budget during a recession. In this scenario, government would need to _____ taxes, which would cause aggregate demand to ____. Group of answer choices

Answer 1

Answer:

Increase

fall

Explanation:

A recession occurs when the gross domestic product of a country for two consecutive quarters is negative.

Annually balanced budget is a budget where at the end of every year, revenue must equal expenditure.

If in a recession, a government is under pressure to maintain a balanced budget, the government would need to increase taxes. this is because income would be less than government expenditure as a result of the recession. In order to maintain a balanced budget, the government can either increases taxes are reduce expenditure.

When taxes are increased, disposable income falls and this causes aggregate demand to fall