Fiscal Policy Strategies
Spending for Gov. Programs
Taxation w/ Representation
The National Debt
Disney 101
100
This form of fiscal policy is achieved through increases in taxation and reduced government spending.
What is a restrictive fiscal policy?
100
We spend over 16% of our total budget on this spending category which includes purchasing tanks, guns, and salaries of our solders.
What is national defense spending?
100
This tax is a tax on goods that are brought into the United States from other countries.
What is a customs duty tax
100
This term refers to the legislation that limits the size of the national debt.
What is the debt ceiling?
100
This Disney Princess lives under the sea and is daughter to the Greek God Poseidon.
Who is Ariel?
200
This form of government fiscal policy is achieved through a reduction in taxes and increased government spending to stimulate business activity.
What is an expansionary fiscal policy?
200
This is a federal system of health insurance for people over 65 years of age and for certain younger people with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
200
This type of tax is a tax placed on the assets of a person who has died.
What is an estate tax?
200
This refers to a 12-month financial period that typically does not duplicate the dates of the calendar year.
What is a fiscal year?
200
She is the newest of the Disney Princesses. She is slightly tomboyish and a redhead.
Who is Merida?
300
This kind of economics focuses on achieving economic stability and growth by increasing the supply of goods and services throughout the economy.
What is Supply-side Economics?
300
This program was started during the New Deal and helps provide funding to the retired and disabled.
What is social security?
300
This kind of tax is placed on the transfer of certain items or value, such as money or other personal property.
What is a gift tax?
300
This refers to the government's policy to spend more money for its programs than it is able to cover with its revenues.
What is deficit spending?
300
Can you name all seven of Snow White's Dwarfs?
Who are bashful, doc, dopey, grumpy, happy, sleepy, and sneezy?
400
This kind of economics focuses on achieving economic growth through the government's influence on aggregate demand.
What is Demand-side Economics?
400
This makes up nearly one half of all taxes collected by the government
What is individual income tax?
400
This is a special tax break that the government extends to businesses to encourage invest.ment in new capital
What is a tax incentive?
400
This term refers to the federal government's plan for the use of government revenues.
What is the federal government?
400
What year did Disneyland open?
What is 1955?
500
This permits firms to deduct from their corporate income taxes a percentage of the money they spend on new capital.
What is an investment tax credit?
500
These five categories are where the federal government spends a majority of its money.
What are social security, national defense, income security, net interest, and medicare?
500
These are the five kinds of collecting taxes.
What are income taxes, corporate income taxes, social security taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes?
500
These are the four limitations to fiscal policy
What are timing problems, political pressures, unpredictable economic behaviors, and a lack of coordination among government policies?
500
This girl is often mistaken for a Disney Princess, though she isn't a princess at all.
Who is Mulan?
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