Name the demand side policy that has tax and government spending as it's main instruments

If a tax is imposed on a market with inelastic supply, how is the burden of the tax distributed? Question 17Answer a. Sellers will bear most of the burden of the tax if the demand is elastic. b. Buyers will bear most of the burden of the tax if the demand is inelastic. c. Buyers will bear most of the burden of the tax if the demand is elastic. d. Sellers will bear most of the burden of the tax if the demand is inelastic.

If taxes are a cost of doing business and are built into the price of goods and sevices, who actually pays those taxes?

The Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman liked to tell this story:   There once was a town where thanks to expansive fiscal policy in Washington, the town had more money to fix roads and build bridges. The construction workers on those projects splurged on steak dinners every Friday, the meat for which they bought at the local butcher shop. The butcher was thrilled by increased sales of meat, as was the butcher's wholesale supplier. In fact, the butcher's supplier tried to put in bigger orders but it wasn't possible to buy more because the slaughterhouses were caught short, too. The result? Higher prices for meat got passed up from the slaughterhouse to the wholesaler to the butcher to the construction workers. With the possible exception of the owners of cattle, nobody was happy. Now a news reporter heard about surging steak prices in the town and decided to write a story about what was happening. Since the initial increase in meat prices was seen in the price of meat sold by…