When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vicious cycle results. Tax evasion forces lawmakers to raise income tax rates, which causes the tax burden on nonevading taxpayers to become heavier. This, in turn, encourages even more taxpayers to evade income taxes by hiding taxable income.
The vicious cycle described above could not result unless which of the following were true?
When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vicious cycle results. Tax evasion forces lawmakers to raise income tax rates, which causes the tax burden on nonevading taxpayers to become heavier. This , in turn, encourages even more taxpayers to evade income taxes by hiding taxable income.
The vicious cycle described above could not result unless which of the following were true?
Answer: when lawmakers establish income tax rates in order to generate a certain level of revenue, they do not allow adequately for revenue that will be lost through evasion.
How ever, I think that if the answer is correct, the unless in the question should be if considered from logic perspective. Am I right? NNs?
以下是引用kathy72在2003-10-1 15:42:00的发言: not unless = if
Yes, then the question could be valued as "The vicious cycle described above could result if which of the following were true" . How ever, from logic aspect, when the situation described in the answer will not result the vicious cycle. That's the confusion. Is the OG's print error? Or I am in ambiguity?