Proportional income taxation is distorting because

A) people do all they can to avoid paying taxes.
B) the competitive equilibrium is not Pareto optimal.
C) firms do all they can to avoid paying taxes.
D) the government budget constraint does not hold.

B

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Refer to Figure 16-6. In the dynamic model of AD-AS in the figure above, if the economy is at point A in year 1 and is expected to go to point B in year 2, Congress and the president would most likely

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