According to Buchanan and Wagner, why is there a political bias toward expansionary fiscal policy rather than contractionary fiscal policy?

A) In a democracy, contractionary fiscal policy prescriptions are more policitally popular than are the policy prescriptions associated with expansionary fiscal policy.
B)  In a democracy, expansionary fiscal policy prescriptions are more politically popular than are the policy prescriptions associated with contractionary fiscal policy.
C) They assert that empirical evidence has shown that Keynesian fiscal policy prescriptions have been successful at closing recessionary gaps, but not inflationary gaps.
D) ​They assert that empirical evidence has shown that Keynesian fiscal policy prescriptions have been successful at closing inflationary gaps, but not recessioinary gaps.
E) ​none of the above.

ANSWER:

B