rightwinger
Award Winning USMB Paid Messageboard Poster
- Aug 4, 2009
- 289,067
- 171,306
- 2,615
I'm not jumping around.
OK, which questions on the quiz were based on economic theories that are in dispute?
You are though. I didn't bring up economics, or the quiz. You brought up that economics was a science, and I merely qualified your remark.
Meanwhile:
If taxes equal government spending, then: tax per person equals government spending per person
I disagree that this is how it breaks down. Taxes are rarely collected equally, and spending is rarely distributed equally. Taxes could still equal spending without either of those two being equal. Politics (public policy) does come into play in national economic policy.
Dunce.
That isn't what the question asks. Tax per person is an average. It doesn't matter whether one person pays the entire tax bill or everyone pays equally.
Similarly gov't spending per person is an average. It doesn't matter if the gov't blows it's entire budget on one person or distributes it equally.
33) If taxes equal government spending, then:
A. government debt is zero
B. printing money no longer causes inflation
C. government is not helping anybody
D. tax per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent
It says nothing about average. It says "tax per person equals government spending per person"
Even the Rabbi knows that is never true