1. The fastest growing category of government expenditure is
A. transfer payments.
B. government purchases.
C. grants to state and local governments.
D. defense spending.
2. The increase in the amount that the government collects in taxes when the economy expands and the decrease in the amount that the government collects in taxes when the economy goes into a recession is an example of
A. automatic monetary policy.
B. automatic stabilizers.
C. discretionary fiscal policy.
D. discretionary monetary policy.