请教gwd-13-27

Q27:

Which if the following, if true, most logically completes the argument?

Aroca County’s public schools are supported primarily by taxes on property.  The county plans to eliminate the property tax and support schools with a new three percent sales tax on all retail items sold in the county.  Three percent of current retail sales is less than the amount collected through property taxes, but implementation of the plan would not necessarily reduce the amount of money going to Aroca County public schools, because ______.

A.  many Aroca County residents have already left the county because of its high property taxes

2. a shopping mall likely to draw shoppers from neighboring counties is about to open in Aroca County
   



3. at least some Aroca County parents are likely to use the money they will save on property taxes to send their children to private schools not funded by the county
   



4. a significant proportion of parents of Aroca County public school students do not own their homes and consequently do not pay property taxes


5. retailers in Aroca County are not likely to absorb the sales tax by reducing the pretax price of their goods

我选C, 谁能讲一讲B为什么?

我选D。这道题讨论过，结果好象是同意答案为D。因为D说绝大部分学生家长不交财产税，但家长们都会买retail items，所以这就说明了retail items tax对比property tax的优势，也就是为什么虽然税收比例小，但AC公立学校收到的钱不会少的缘故。

B一个新超市要开张，可以吸引临县的顾客。B避开谈两种税收的区别，有些out of scope。切就算超市可以提高retail items的收入，那提高多少，够不够弥补与property tax的差距，这些都不知道。

C中的at least some实在太弱了，到底这个some是多少，能使AC的收入不变吗？

支持B, C&D为无关选项

支持B,小小声问,谁能来给俺解释一下A呢?

A.  many Aroca County residents have already left the county because of its high property taxes

因为交财产税的人都搬走了,所以即使还是收财产税也不会比retail tax要高了

感觉A和B,一个是说财产税会降低，一个是说retail tax会升高

但为啥选B不选A,我只有个很模糊的概念，请哪位NN再来指点一下

A:  property tax是房屋税, 人搬走了, 房子搬不走, 谁的物业, 谁就得交税啊.

D:public school students 家里不用交property tax, 这笔钱也不见得用在买东西上, 即与sales tax也没什么必然联系

C: 一些人由于不交property tax, 于是把孩子送往私立学校, 这样就算sales tax没以前property tax多, 平均到每个孩子头上还是不少的; 可是原文说的would not necessarily reduce the amount of money going to Aroca County public schools, 好象总数没减少

E: 就太离谱了.

谢谢10楼的lawyer_1, 我同意B.(刚刚看漏了, 没见到on all retail items.

B is absolutely rught. Three percent of current retail sales is less than the amount collected through property taxes, but  plan would not necessarily reduce the amount . 现在retail sales 的3%是比原来少，但总数却没少，百分比没变，只能retail sales 增加。B说的就是retail sales 增加