Fiscal policy affects these measurements, with the goal of increasing GDP and aggregate demand in a sustainable manner. This happens by changing three factors. Business tax policy: Taxes that businesses pay to the government affects its profits and investment spending. Lowering taxes increases both ag...
The budget has also come to be used to achieve specific goals of economic policy. It was long recognized that government borrowing could have important effects on the rest of the economy. As the scale of government activity increased, the levels of expenditure and taxation were seen to have su...
stone of seven-inch maximum size. The road was constructed by the federal government, much of the finance being raised by land sales. Although maintenance was funded bytollsand federal appropriations, the road surface began to deteriorate in the 1820s. Federal funding ceased in 1838, and in ...
The accountability of government, even in a well-developed democracy, is in reality considerably less acute, or certainly less clear, than that of companies to their shareholders or individuals to their various creditors. As a result, governmental budgeting is frequently of lower quality than is th...
to support the activities as part of the normal budget process, or preferential treatment of the activities can be built into the tax system, as with the deductions allowed for home mortgage interest. In either case the advantages granted can be seen as subsidies provided by the government. ...
of the legislature, such as the creation of committees, providing for legislative employees, or instituting an investigation.Treatiesof the national government have the force ofstatutesand stand on a parity with them. Typically, states may not make treaties, but with the consent of the national ...
The research reported here sought to more fully understand the types and causative factors of injury/fatality incidents resulting from the rearward-movement of tractors and other self-propelled agricultural machinery, with the view that such findings might lead to the development, improvement, and/or...
a free-for-service/government-funded applied research, development, and testing organization, serving agriculture and industry in Western Canada; ASABE—American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, an educational and scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to...