Suppose your city government, threatened with bankruptcy, decided to tax the interest income on its own bonds as part of an effort to rectify serious budgetary woes. What would you expect to see happen to the yields on these bonds? You would expect the yields to (Click to select) due to (Click to select) default risk.
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