Refer to the following figure when answering the following questions.
Figure 18.2: Government Outlays and Receipts as a Percentage
of GDP, 1947-2012 
-Consider Figure 18.2. What was the cause of the huge budget deficit beginning in 1981?
A) the oil crisis
B) the Great Recession
C) President Reagan's defense expenditures and tax cuts
D) the first Gulf War
E) the Volcker recession
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Q9: In 2014, the debt-to-GDP ratio in the
Q10: In 2015, the U.S. federal government spent,
Q11: The federal government's largest expenditure in 2011
Q12: The government debt is:
A) the total accumulation
Q13: In 2012, the ratio of all levels
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Q17: In 2011, the federal government's budget deficit
Q18: The federal government's largest source of revenue
Q19: In 2015, the largest single U.S. federal
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