What is the main goal in creating the federal budget?

Question

A: managing businesses and increasing spending on all programs
B: deciding how to manage the government’s tax revenue and expenditures
C: finding a way to allow the economy to run on its own
D: finding a way to slow down rapid economic growth

Answer 1

The main goal in creating the federal budget is:

B: deciding how to manage the government’s tax revenue and expenditures.

The budget process involves determining how much money the government will collect through taxes and how it will allocate that funding to various programs and services.