Advocates of income inequality argue that government policy designed to lower the Gini coefficient significantly would likely cause, in the long run,
a. productivity growth
b. the poor's share of national income to fall
c. the income of the poor to decline
d. equality of income
e. saving and investment to rise
C
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If a tax cut increases people's labor supply, then the tax cut
A) increases potential GDP. B) decreases aggregate demand. C) decreases potential GDP because the real wage rate falls. D) does not affect aggregate demand. E) Both answers B and C are correct.
An expansionary fiscal policy is likely to
A) decrease a government budget surplus (or increase a budget deficit) and increase borrowing by the Treasury which will sell more bonds. B) increase a government budget surplus (or increase a budget deficit) and decrease borrowing by the Treasury which will buy more bonds. C) increase a government budget surplus (or increase a budget deficit) and increase borrowing by the Treasury which will sell more bonds. D) decrease a government budget surplus (or increase a budget deficit) and decrease borrowing by the Treasury which will buy more bonds.