Asked by kharee

What course of action might a government take to respond to the downturn revealed in this graph?
Responses

encouraging people to travel overseas
encouraging people to travel overseas

reducing the size of its armed forces
reducing the size of its armed forces

decrease taxes to increase consumers' money supply
decrease taxes to increase consumers' money supply

laying off unnecessary workers

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Decrease taxes to increase consumers' disposable income.

This is an expansionary fiscal response: cutting taxes boosts households' spending power and aggregate demand, helping to counter a downturn. The other options (encouraging travel abroad, cutting the armed forces, or laying off workers) would either send spending overseas or reduce demand and employment, which would worsen the downturn.