这题答案给的D, 不大明白:题干说现行的农业政策是对消费者的惩罚,因为它增加了食物的价格,以及纳税者每年10亿的税额;问支持的?
Current farm policy is institutionalized penalization of consumers. It increases food prices for middle- and low-income families and costs the taxpayer billions of dollars a year.
Which of the following statements, if true, would provide support for the author’s claims above?
I. Farm subsidies amount to roughly $20 billion a year in federal payouts and $12 billion more in higher food prices.
农业补贴每年大约需要政府20billion的支出,而食品价格增加12billion; 这个怎么支持的?
II. According to a study by the Department of Agriculture, each $1 of benefits provided to farmers for ethanol production costs consumers and taxpayers $4.
对于酒精产品每4美元的成本加税,可获利1美元, 这又是怎么支持的呢?
III. The average full-time farmers have an average net worth of over $300,000.
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II only(D)
(E) I, II, and III
盼“明人”指点啊!
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