What problem did the interstate commerce commissions have with the railroads? a) prices continued to escalate because of regulation. b) there was difficulty getting illegal practices reported. c) the railroads used every legal means to avoid regulation. d) there were too many railroads for the icc to regulate them efficiently. * give your reason for the answer as well. : )

A) Prices continued to escalate because of regulation.

i thing that the best option is a.they feared it would cause a second economic collapse.

one of the most negatives aspects of the new deal was that it upset the balanced federal budget and led to a huge deficit for the nation while at the same time failed to end increasing unemployment. roosevelt's program, based on keynesian theories of economics, called for massive government spending to stimulate the economy. as he   failed to do this with large tax increases; large sums of money were borrowed to fund new deal programs. when the economy showed some improvement, roosevelt was concerned about inflation, and ordered cuts in government spending. unfortunately, he did so at a time when the new social security tax had cut people's disposable income. businesses were too afraid of spending, and the economy in 1937 was in worse shape than in 1929. at the end of that year, two million people were unemployed.

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