求助OG10-122

ran2010zx

122. When people evade income taxes by not declaringtaxable income, a vicious cycle results. Tax evasion forces lawmakers to raiseincome tax rates, which causes the tax burden on nonevading taxpayers to becomeheavier. This, in turn, encourages even more taxpayers to evade income taxes byhiding taxable income.

The vicious cycle described above could not result unlesswhich of the following were true?

(A) An increase in tax rates tends to function as anincentive for taxpayers to try to increase their pretax incomes.

(B) Some methods for detecting tax evaders, and thusrecovering some tax revenue lost through evasion, bring in more than they cost,but their success rate varies from years to year.

(C) When lawmakers establish income tax rates in order togenerate a certain level of revenue, they do not allow adequately for revenuethat will be lost through evasion.

(D) No one who routinely hides some taxable income can beinduced by a lowering of tax rates to stop hiding such income unless fines forevaders are raised at the same time. C

(E) Taxpayers do not differ from each other with respectto the rate of taxation that will cause them to evade taxes.

这道题C答案我是明白啊，不过我觉得E也说的通啊，求各路牛人们指导~~~

sdcar2010

(C) they do not allow adequately for revenue that will be lost through evasion --> they did not anticipate such evasion and they did not set the tax rate accordingly to compensate for such evasion.

E is irrelevant since if you negate E, no harm is done to the argument.

ran2010zx

(C) they do not allow adequately for revenue that will be lost through evasion --> they did not anticipate such evasion and they did not set the tax rate accordingly to compensate for such evasion.

E is irrelevant since if you negate E, no harm is done to the argument.

-- by 会员 sdcar2010 (2011/2/14 11:29:59)

可以啊，你看如果每个人对于 rate of taxation that will cause them to evade taxes 的态度都一样的话，必然会导致逃税这个恶性循环产生啊

sdcar2010

(E) Taxpayers do not differ from each other with respect to the rate of taxation that will cause them to evade taxes.

E simply says that the opinion of each tax-payer towards the rate of taxation as a cause for tax evasion.  It does NOT say what kind of opinion that is, good or bad.  If you base your answer on only one side of the opinion (bad opinion), you are bring in outside information, thus, NOT allowed in logical reasoning.

In fact, by choosing E, LZ commit a logical fallacy.

ran2010zx

(E) Taxpayers do not differ from each other with respect to the rate of taxation that will cause them to evade taxes.

E simply says that the opinion of each tax-payer towards the rate of taxation as a cause for tax evasion.  It does NOT say what kind of opinion that is, good or bad.  If you base your answer on only one side of the opinion (bad opinion), you are bring in outside information, thus, NOT allowed in logical reasoning.

In fact, by choosing E, LZ commit a logical fallacy.哦啊，明白了，谢谢啊

-- by 会员 sdcar2010 (2011/2/14 21:34:33)