Public goods are those that are consumed:
A)only by those who have paid for them.
B)only by the government that provides them.
C)by the private group that funds them.
D)only by free riders.
E)by the paying and nonpaying public alike.

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Public goods are goods that are non-excludable, meaning that it is difficult or impossible to exclude people from using them, and non-rival, meaning that one person's consumption of the good does not diminish another person's ability to consume it. As a result, public goods are consumed by both paying and nonpaying members of the public alike.

Public Goods Are Those That Are Consumed