In: Economics
Suppose the government decides for tax cut next year by an
amount equal to $2 billion a year. Along strictly monetary theory
lines, using as your framework the equation of exchange, analyze
the effect on money income, prices, and interest rates under three
alternative sets of circumstances:
1. |
The cut in taxes is accompanied by an equal increase in the deficit, which is fully |
financed by increasing the money stock at a rate of $2 billion a year more than it would otherwise have been increased.
2. |
The cut in taxes is accompanied by an equal increase in the deficit, which is |
financed by borrowing from the general public with no effect on the stock of money.
3. |
The cut in taxes is accompanied by an equal cut in government expenditures, so |
there is no change in the deficit.