If the government increased the income tax on the rich and increased transfer payments to the poor, the most likely result would be

a. to increase investment in the economy
b. the eradication of poverty
c. a rise in the Gini coefficient
d. an increase in the economy's rate of economic growth
e. a decline in the economy's rate of economic growth

E

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