In each of the subsequent circumstances, choose whether the impact of government on the economy increases or decreases and why. In each case how does your response compare to that given by standard methods of the size of government?
a. Usually when employers offer health insurance benefits to their workers, these benefits spread to the spouses of the workers as well. Numerous years ago San Francisco passed a law requiring firms that do business with the city to offer health as well as other benefits to both same and opposite-sex unwed partners.
b. The ratio of government purchases of goods as well as services to gross domestic product falls.
c. The federal budget is brought into balance by dropping grants-in-aid to state and local governments.