When the Government Provides a Public Good by Taxing Citizens

Multiple Choice

When the government provides a public good by taxing citizens and using tax money to provide the good

A) the result is efficient if the total value of the public good is greater than the cost of providing it.
B) the result is inefficient because the government is an inefficient provider of goods and services.
C) the result is inefficient because if it were efficient the good would have been provided in a free market.
D) the result is efficient only if voters specifically agreed to provision of that good.