Sales taxes tend to be regressive,affecting poor people more severely than wealthy people. When allpurchases of consumer goodsare taxed at a fixed percentage of the purchaseprice, poor people pay a larger proportion of their income in sales taxes than wealthypeople do.
Itcan be correctly inferred on the basis of the statements above that which ofthe following is true?
A. Poor people constitute a larger proportion of the taxpaying populationthan wealthy people do.
B. Poor people spend a larger proportion of their income on purchases of consumergoods than wealthy people do.
C. Wealthy people pay, on average, a larger amount of sales taxes thanpoor people do.
D. The total amount spent by all poor people on purchases of consumergoods exceeds the total amount spent by all wealthy people on consumergoods.
E. The average purchase price of consumer goods bought by wealthy people is higher than that of consumer goods bought by poor people.
我选的D 不明白这两个有什么区别? |