Chapter 15-Fiscal Policy

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Across
  1. 1. principle: the tax should be paid those who receive the benefits of the tax revenue.
  2. 5. Tax: is one that takes a smaller percentage of a person's income as his income rises
  3. 8. Tax: is one in which all people, no matter how great or small their income, pay the same percentage of their earnings.
  4. 9. Insurance Contribution: legislation requiring the deduction of social security taxes from workers' paychecks
  5. 11. to pay principle: a tax as being fair if the taxing authority levies it on those who have the ability to pay
Down
  1. 2. Tax:is a tax the government levies on the sale of certain targeted consumer goods, such as gasoline, alcoholic beverages, and cigarettes.
  2. 3. multiplier: is the inverse of one minus the slope of the aggregate expenditures line
  3. 4. Economics: economics policies based upon the ideas of John Maynard, who believed that governments could eliminate severe conditions of the business cycle by using fiscal policy.
  4. 6. Propensity to Save: the percentage of each dollar that the average consumer saves
  5. 7. Tax: is one that takes a greater percentage of a person's income as his income increases
  6. 10. Policy: refers to the actions the government takes to affect output and employment through the way it spends, taxes, and borrows