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How do federal budget choices affect the national debt?
IntroductionToBusiness OP 8D04gAa / Critical Thinking Case
"5. How would you spend the national budget if you were president? Here’s your chance to find out how your ideas would affect the federal budget. Go online to Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, at http://www.crfb.org , and under Tools, click on Stabilize the Debt, which is an exercise in making difficult decisions and how government officials make trade-offs when they prepare the federal budget. Experiment with your own budget ideas at the site. What are the effects of your decisions?"
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