OG(VR)#73

#73 The cotton farmers of country Q became productive that the market could not absorb all that they produced. Consequently , cotton prices fall. The governemnt tried to boost cotton by offering farmers who took 25 percent of their cotton acreage out of production direct support payments up to specified maximum per farm.

The government's program , if successful, will not be a net burden on the budget, which of the following , if true, is the best basis for an explanation of how this could be so?

(D) The specified maximum per farm meant that for very large cotton farms the support payments were less per acre for those acres that were withdrawn from production than they were for similar farms.

針對這個選項.ETS 說: The direct payments are presumably scaled to the size of the farm since the passage states that payments are made up to a specified maximum. Nothing in this statement explains how the government will be able to compensate for making the payments.請問這該如何理解呢?