How do we calculate the national debt?
a. federal spending minus federal revenues in a single year
b. the amount of taxation subtracted from the GDP
c. accumulating all annual budget deficits
d. collective income minus the amount of taxes paid
ANS: C
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a. gathering of facts is the basis of understanding of reality b. merely gathering facts will leave one with a jumble of unrelated information c. a theory is not essential for understanding an idea d. understanding facts is sufficient for understanding reality e. it's easy to distinguish meaningless from meaningful facts
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