Which of the following categories of federal spending is the largest in the United States?

A) interest on federal debt
B) mandatory spending
C) discretionary spending
D) national defense

B

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a. evaluation by the UN Security Council. b. analysis by the U.S.-backed International Law Commission. c. unilateral determination of violations by states themselves. d. review by the European Union Parliament

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The demand curve for a good is very unlikely to be perfectly vertical because

a. scarcity and limited income restrict the ability of consumers to afford goods as they become very expensive. b. as the price of a good rises to high enough levels, the incentive for other suppliers to invent new substitutes for the good increases. c. consumers generally do not care about the price of the goods they consume. d. both a and b are true.

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