What does deficit spending require a government to do?
When revenues are higher than expenditures in a budget, that budget
A pie chart titled Federal Government Spending in 2010 is shown. Education and health and human services has the largest piece, and veteran apostrophe s affairs has the smallest piece.

What is the main goal in creating the federal budget?
A plan for spending money that balances income with spending and shows how money will be spent is
A graph titled Total U S Government Spending as Percentage of G D P from 1990-2012 has year on the x-axis and percentage of G D P on the y-axis, from 15 to 30 percent in increments of 5. The percentage of G D P is lowest at 18 percent in 2001 and highest at 25 percent in 2009.

A diagram shows that taxes go into the government, which then go into spending.

What does deficit spending require a government to do?
Revenue and expenditures are sitting on a balance. Expenditures are lower than revenue.

A pie chart titled Federal Government Spending in 2010 is shown. Education and health and human services has the largest piece, and veteran apostrophe s affairs has the smallest piece.

Which statement best describes the likely effects of an expansionary fiscal policy?
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the federal government and its employees?
Which of these effects of expansionary spending would a government most want to avoid?
Spending that is required by law is known as
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