PT10.S1.Q19 - Can someone please explain this question?

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• victoriastarrett92 Core Member

  July 2022 34 karma

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• u______u Alum Member

  July 2022 233 karma

  Context: fares are subsidized by the city through taxes. People who commute from outside the city are a group that benefits from the subsidies.
  Premise: taxes should be used to benefit only those who pay them
  Conclusion: bus fares should be raised

  A) negative consequence of higher fares. Business relocation. Bad.
  negative consequence of higher fares. More driving. More pollution. Bad.
  C) negative consequence of higher fares. These people can't pay taxes. They'd suffer as a result. Bad.
  D) irrelevant. Who cares if voters are opposed to it? What are they going to do about it?
  E) people who work in Greenville already pay taxes. This would include that group of people who commute into the city as they work in the city. Therefore, they deserve to receive the benefit of the tax subsidized fares. This one goes after the premise. If everyone pays taxes, then how are you going to make it so that taxes benefit only those who pay them? Bad.
• maco4538 Alum Member

  July 2022 323 karma

  Stim: Fares on the city-run public buses in Greenville are
  subsidized by city tax revenues, but among the
  beneficiaries of the low fares are many people who
  commute from outside the city to jobs in Greenville.
  Some city councillors argue that city taxes should be
  used primarily to benefit the people who pay them,
  and therefore that bus fares should be raised enough
  to cover the cost of the service.

  Premise #1
  Residents of the city of Greenville subsidies the city-run public buses through their taxes, but among the beneficiaries of the low fares are many people who commute from outside the city to jobs in Greenville.
  Premise #2
  City taxes should be used primarily to benefit those who paid for such benefits.

  Conclusion
  Therefore that bus fares should be raised enough to cover the cost of the service.

  Method of Reasoning: Based on the assumption that only those who are city residents are city taxpayers, and the premise that city taxes should be used primarily to benefit taxpayers, concludes that bus fares should be raised, because some people are not residents of the city and benefit from tax subsidies fares.

  Each of the following, if true, would weaken the
  argument advanced by the city councillors
  EXCEPT:
  (A) if this was an added premise, it would violate the argument's central principle (i.e., city taxes should be used primarily to benefit those who paid for such benefits). -- weaken
  (B) if this was an added premise, it would violate the argument's central principle (i.e., city taxes should be used primarily to benefit those who paid for such benefits). -- weaken
  (C) if this was an added premise, it would violate the argument's central principle (i.e., city taxes should be used primarily to benefit those who paid for such benefits). -- weaken
  (D) Raising bus fares would actually lower taxes, so this would be a win --strengthen
  (E) calls out an invalid assumption that only those who are city residents are city taxpayers, since everyone working above minimum wage in that city, including non-resident commuters, are city taxpayers. -- weaken
• maco4538 Alum Member

  July 2022 323 karma

  (A)Many businesses whose presence in the city is
  beneficial to the city's taxpayers would
  relocate outside the city if public-transit fares
  were more expensive.
  (B)By providing commuters with economic
  incentives to drive to work, higher transit
  fares would worsen air pollution in Greenville
  and increase the cost of maintaining the city
  streets
  (C)Increasing transit fares would disadvantage
  those residents of the city whose low incomes
  make them exempt from city taxes, and all
  city councillors agree that these residents
  should be able to take advantage of city-run
  services.
  (D)Voters in the city, many of whom benefit from
  the low transit fares, are strongly opposed to
  increasing local taxes.
  (E)People who work in Greenville and earn wages
  above the nationally mandated minimum all
  pay the city wage tax of 5 percent.