Compare And Contrast The Federal Government Budget Deficit And The American Economy

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ECO 252 The Federal Government Budget Deficit and the American Economy How elected officials deal with the budget deficit will have a definite impact on our economy. There are many questions to be answered, and the possible outcomes are linked to the infinite number of possible answers. The following essay will explore some basic economic concepts including, opportunity cost, good economics versus good politics, the Laffer curve, capitalism versus socialism, and the “invisible hand”. Many Americans look at the budget deficit in the simplest of terms. More expensive government programs will require more taxes to fund them. This is a simple and true statement, sometimes. A closer look at the vast number of programs and their costs reveals a more complex equation. For example, if the cost of the milk subsidy program were compared to the national parks program and legislators were asked to choose one opportunity over the other, the votes from legislators from farming states would most assuredly be in favor of the milk subsidy, while the legislators from tourism states would vote in favor of the national parks program. Is this a comparison of opportunity cost? Perhaps, but the more prevalent…show more content…
The supposed advantage of government intervention would be that the intervention would create more healthcare opportunities for a larger portion of the population. To some extent the current level of government intervention does accomplish this. The working people of our country that are close to the poverty level can gain healthcare opportunities by accessing Medicaid benefits. There are so many other factors relative to the Medicaid program that actually decrease the healthcare opportunities for another segment of the

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