One reason given for the Bush tax cuts in 2001 was to reduce the size of the

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One reason given for the Bush tax cuts in 2001 was to reduce the size of the government budget surplus.
a. Why might the government want to reduce the size of the budget surplus?
b. Shortly after the tax cuts were passed, various changes occurred that policymakers could not have predicted, such as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.What happened to the government’s budget surplus?
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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 9780132109994

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Authors: Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien, Matthew P Rafferty

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