QUESTION $23$

Why are the states sometimes called "laboratories of democracy"?

a $.$ ?The states provide direct funding for universities and colleges where scientific experiments are conducted.

b $.$ ?The federal government can use the states as test beds to try out different approaches to problems.

c $.$ ?The states can take different approaches to similar problems. In a sense, the states can experiment with different ways of solving problems, and learn from each other about what works best.

d $.$ ?Federalism makes it hard for the federal government to solve the country's problems, so a lot of things are left to the states to deal with.

QUESTION $24$

True or false: States receive exactly as much from the federal government as their taxpayers send to the federal government in the form of taxes.

True

False