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Multiple-Choice Quiz

1 .       A policy document allocating burdens and benefits is called a(n) [Hint]



2 .       Social insurance taxes [Hint]



3 .       When the government wants to borrow money the [Hint]



4 .       No government policy affects as many Americans as [Hint]



5 .       The ability of businessmen to deduct the cost of a "three-martini lunch" was an example of a [Hint]



6 .       An example of a tax expenditure is [Hint]



7 .       When President Reagan first revealed his massive tax simplification plan in 1985 [Hint]



8 .       In 1993, Congress agreed to President Clinton's proposal to [Hint]



9 .       A generation ago, the most expensive part of the federal budget was its [Hint]



10 .       The biggest slice of the budget pie belongs to [Hint]



11 .       The largest social policy of the federal government is in the area of [Hint]



12 .       The most prevalent model of budgetary decision-making in practice is [Hint]



13 .       A major feature of incremental budgeting is that it [Hint]



14 .       The majority of government expenditures are determined by [Hint]



15 .       The biggest uncontrollable expenditure in the federal budget is [Hint]



16 .       The only way to "control" uncontrollable expenditures is [Hint]



17 .       The purpose of budget reconciliation is to [Hint]



18 .       The purpose of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings was to [Hint]



19 .       A solution to the budget problems has been difficult to achieve because of the lack of [Hint]



20 .       According to the text, one might accurately characterize policymaking in the American government since 1980 as the [Hint]



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