Politician: We should impose

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Premise Match11% picked this

   A country should put its own economic interest over that of

   It would be in our economic interest to not have the tariff (cheaper prices for better fruit and more lucrative uses of our current farmland). Preserving farming as a unique way of life is a cultural interest.

   11%
2. B

   Too Strong: "always"7% picked this

   The interests of producers should always take precedence over those

   Consumers would probably be better off with no tariff, because then they would buy imported fruit that is cheaper and better. Domestic fruit producers would be better off with the tariff. In that sense, this principle kind of works. However, would the author say that this is always true? The author might just want to prioritize the interests of fruit producers in this instance. Moreover, the industrial users of land are also producers, and those producers would be better off with no tariff. So it's too hard to say that by following this rule we would impose the tariff, and it's hard to say that the author was invoking a principle this strong and expansive in order to justify the tariff.

   7%
3. C

   Correct70% picked this

   Social concerns should sometimes take precedence over

   Why this is right

   No tariff is more economically efficient = cheaper/better fruit and more lucrative uses of farmland. Imposing the tariff accomplishes a social concern = preserving the farming way of life. The author is definitely, in this case (sometimes), thinking that the social concern is more important than the economic efficiency.

   Skill tested: Principle-Conform · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   70%
4. D

   Unclear Impact Irrelevant Comparison10% picked this

   A country should put the interests of its own citizens ahead of those of citizens

   No tariff benefits some of this country's citizens (people who want to buy better fruit at a cheaper price). Imposing the tariff benefits some of this country's other citizens (people who don't want farming to vanish as a way of life). Our principle needs to rank these two interests against each other, not the interests of our country vs. other country.

   10%
5. E

   Opposite2% picked this

   Government intervention sometimes creates more economic efficiency than

   If the government intervened, by imposing a tariff, it would be less economic efficiency. Not having a tariff means cheaper prices on higher quality goods, and it means converting farmland into more lucrative uses.

   2%