LSAT PrepTest 156 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 10

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Passage A.

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Question · What public interest do tax-funded art subsidies serve?

If nothing, then art should be exclusively funded through the private sector.

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Conclusion · Public art subsidy is justified

Premise 1 · To ensure equitable access to arts

Private funding will not ensure equitable access

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Premise 2 · To build social capital

By creating opportunities for citizens to come together and thereby increase civic involvement

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Concession · Public art subsidy has incidental benefits

Premise · Justification requires showing direct benefit to taxpayers

Requires more people having more enjoyment

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Premise · Unlikely to meet that requirement

Because the general public's taste in art won't be the same as the selection committees that distribute the funding.

Passage Style

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Question Type

Author’s perspective

Implied

For this question, we only need to consider passage B. This is an inference question about author B’s perspective on public arts subsidies. We know that he thinks that such subsidies are not justifiable because they don’t directly benefit taxpayers or allow more people to enjoy better art, since subsidized art “will not be the art that most taxpayers would have chosen for themselves.”

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Unsupported. Author B is against public arts subsidies; he never suggests that they promote any public policy objectives. He brings up one public policy issue— national defense— only as an example to support his argument that, unlike national defense, culture is not a public good.

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Unsupported. Author B doesn’t address whether public or private subsidies would more effectively disseminate access to culture. He thinks that public subsidies won’t guarantee “more widespread aesthetic enjoyment,” and that income inequality doesn’t justify such subsidies. But he doesn’t tell us whether he thinks private subsidies are a better option.

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Unsupported. Author B says here that public arts subsidies are not justified unless they directly benefit taxpayers by enabling more people to enjoy better art. He doesn’t say that these subsidies must make the arts equally available to everyone. In fact, he thinks that income inequality doesn’t justify public arts subsidies.

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Supported. Author B says here that subsidized art reflects the taste of selection committees, leaving most people with art they don’t like. He argues that people should be able to make their own aesthetic choices, and that it’s “wrong for government to choose for people the art works and cultural events it considers they should have.” We can thus infer that author B believes these subsidies condescend to people by making aesthetic choices for them.

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Unsupported. Author B is against public arts subsidies, but not because they reduce available funding for other important public programs. He doesn’t say anything about how much funding these subsidies would use or whether that funding might be better used for other programs. He just thinks public arts subsidies aren’t justifiable because they don’t increase taxpayers’ enjoyment of art.

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