单选题

If a government increases its spending on domestically produced goods by an amount that is financed by the same increase in taxes, the aggregate demand will most likely:

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】

A is correct. Aggregate demand rises when the government increases spending by the same amount as it raises taxes because the marginal propensity to spend out of disposable income is less than 1, and hence for every dollar less in disposable income, spending only falls by c (where c is the marginal propensity to consume in dollars). Aggregate spending will fall less than the tax rise by a factor c. This additional output will, in turn, lead to further increases in income and output through the multiplier effect.