In this unit, you learned about the federal bureaucracy and public policy, including fiscal policy, in the country. Based on what you learned in the lesson, what are some of the largest expenditures the federal government is responsible for? One of the most divisive political issues in our nation has been the government’s approach to spending. Think about some of the things that government spends money on. If you had to make changes to spending, what would you do? Why? What might be some short-term and long-term effects of your proposed changes? Be sure to use facts and examples to support your answer.

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As Figure A suggests, Social Security is the single largest mandatory spending item, taking up 38% or nearly $1,050 billion of the $2,736 billion total. The next largest expenditures are Medicare and Income Security, with the remaining amount going to Medicaid, Veterans Benefits, and other programs.

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As Figure A suggests, Social Security is the single largest mandatory spending item, taking up 38% or nearly $1,050 billion of the $2,736 billion total. The next largest expenditures are Medicare and Income Security, with the remaining amount going to Medicaid, Veterans Benefits, and other programs.

Government spends money for a variety of reasons, including: To supply goods and services that the private sector would fail to do, such as public goods, including defence, roads and bridges; merit goods, such as hospitals and schools; and welfare payments and benefits, including unemployment and disability benefit.

We can distinguish between short term impact (e.g., the development of a temporary medication for an illness for which it can be hoped that soon a more definitive remedy will appear), and the long term impact (e.g. , the discovery of the photovoltaic effect which led to the development of solar voltaic energy).

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