Discussion: Consumer spending
Discussion: Consumer spending
Consumer spending is linked to disposable income. The Trump Administration enacted tax reform in December 2017 with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Better Jobs Act (please see a summary along with recent trends in certain provisions proposed to become permanent at and ), included in the reform act a reduction in lower the individual tax rate for top-tier earners from 39.6% to 35% and cutting the corporate tax rate to 15%. Explain how this change in taxes affects consumption, aggregate demand, and investment spending. With this in mind, should this be enacted?
Second Assignment: minimum of 150 words
For the Week 5 Critical Thinking Exercise, you will explain the Keynesian view to enacting tighter federal restrictions on mortgage lending practices including requiring higher down payment levels and increasing the minimum credit score required to approve housing loans. A major contributor to the 2008-2009 Great Recession was the housing market “bust” that was characterized by rising home values that caused the AD curve to shift to the right as more household saw an increase in wealth due to the appreciation. Explain based on your readings and supplementary resources, how would such a shift in regulatory policy impact the housing market and pricing? For support you can utilize information from the National Association of Realtors at the links below.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
