LSAT-22-2-7

snow_mountain

Questions 7-8
Political advocate: Campaigns for elective office
should be subsidized with public funds. One
reason is that this would allow politicians to
devote less time to fund-raising thus giving
campaigning incumbents more time to serve the
public. A second reason is that such subsidies
would make it possible to set caps on individual
campaign contributions. thereby reducing the
likelihood that elected officials will be working
for the benefit not of the public but of
individual large contributors. Critic: This
argument is problematic the more the caps
constrain contributions the more time candidates
have to spend finding more small contributors.
7. The critic objects that the advocate's
argument is flawed because
(A) any resourceful large contributor can
circumvent caps on individual contributions by
sending in smaller amounts under various names
(B) one of the projected results cited in support
of the proposal made is entailed by the other and
therefore does not constitute independent support
of the proposal
(C) of the two projected results cited in support
of the proposal made one works against the other
(D) it overlooks the possibility that large
contributors will stop contributing if they
cannot contribute at will
(E) it overlooks the possibility that incumbents
with a few extremely generous contributors will
be hit harder by caps than incumbents with many
moderately generous contributors.

答案C。

把答案看了三遍后觉得自己死了不明不白。

mariezhu

There are two reasons for the the elective office to be subsidized with public funds
1。allow politicians to devote less time to fund-raising thus giving campaigning incumbents more time to serve the public
2。reduce by setting caps on individual campaign contributions the  possibility that elected officialsd works for the benefit of the individual large contributors.

however, according to the critic:the more the caps constrain contributions（2。）, the more time candidates have to spend finding more small contributors(1。).

therefore, the two results contradict each other.

snow_mountain

谢谢你，解释的很清楚。