Self-study
Regina: Support The additional revenue obtained from leasing government-owned toll bridges to private investors will be allocated to the transportation budget, so Conclusion the leases will not be used to reduce shortfalls in other budget areas.
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Speaker 1 Summary
Regina claims that the additional revenue from bridge leases will not reduce shortfalls in other budget areas. Why? Because the additional revenue will be allocated to the transportation budget.
Speaker 2 Summary
Amal argues that the additional revenue will reduce shortfalls in other budget areas. Why? Because allocating the revenue to transportation will free up existing transportation funds for other budget areas.
Objective
We need a statement Regina and Amal disagree on. They disagree on whether the new revenue from leases will help reduce other budget shortfalls. Regina thinks that the new revenue will not reduce shortfalls since it will be allocated to transportation. Amal thinks that the new revenue will reduce shortfalls indirectly by freeing up existing transportation funds for other uses.
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a
there will be ██████████ ██ ██████ █████ █████ ████ ██████████████
Both speakers agree with this statement. Both Regina and Amal take for granted that shortfalls in other budget areas will exist, they're just debating whether the new funds will reduce those shortfalls.
b
the amount of █████ █████████ █████████ ██ ██████████████ ██ ████████
Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. The question is about what budget areas will be impacted by the new funds, not the adequacy of transportation funding.
c
new revenue from ███████ ████████████████ ████ ███████ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ ██████████████
Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. Neither speaker makes a value judgement about what should or should not be done, they only discuss what they think is likely to happen.
d
new revenue allocated ██ ██████████████ ████ ██████ ██ ████████ ██████████████ █████ █████ ███████████ ██ █████ █████
Regina and Amal disagree on this statement. Regina disagrees that the new funds will help other budget areas, so we can infer that she thinks no transportation funds will be reallocated. Amal agrees that the new funds will help other budget areas indirectly by freeing up existing funds.
e
leasing government-owned toll ███████ ██ ███████ █████████ ████ ██ ███████████ ██████████ ██ ███ ██████████
Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. We can’t assume that the speakers agree or disagree with this, because neither one addresses the overall financial impact of this plan.