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Must Be True. The correct answer choice is (A)
The author concludes that the least efficiently run government bureaucracies are the ones that most commonly receive an increase in funds, because a legislator’s most common response to an inadequately provided public service is an increase of funding for it.
If the statements in the editorial are all true, it must also be true that there is a logical equivalence between inadequately provided public services and inefficiently run government bureaucracies. If the least efficiently run government bureaucracies were not most commonly the cause of inadequately provided public services, then the conclusion would not follow from the premise. Answer choice (A) is therefore correct.
Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer choice. See discussion above.
Answer choice (B): Just because the legislators boost the funding for the inadequately provided public service does not mean that they will necessarily boost the funding for the bureaucracy providing that service. It is perfectly plausible that the bureaucracy itself receives decreased levels of funding. This answer choice is incorrect.
Answer choice (C): It is not necessary that legislators repeatedly boost the funding for the public service in question: multiple funding increases would only be necessary if the initial funding increase does not solve the problem, and only if subsequent inefficiencies are discovered and repeatedly addressed. It is perfectly possible that one boost in funding is sufficient to resolve the inefficiency.
Answer choice (D): The effect of boosting the funding for a public service is outside the scope of this argument, which is only about the cause of the increase – i.e. the discovery of a service that is not being adequately provided. Answer choice (D) expresses a negative view of government procedure, which may seem tempting, but is not supported by the information contained in the stimulus and is therefore incorrect.
Answer choice (E): This answer choice is an exaggeration and is therefore incorrect. Never attempt to infer absolute statements from information about relative claims.
Must Be True. The correct answer choice is (A)
The author concludes that the least efficiently run government bureaucracies are the ones that most commonly receive an increase in funds, because a legislator’s most common response to an inadequately provided public service is an increase of funding for it.
If the statements in the editorial are all true, it must also be true that there is a logical equivalence between inadequately provided public services and inefficiently run government bureaucracies. If the least efficiently run government bureaucracies were not most commonly the cause of inadequately provided public services, then the conclusion would not follow from the premise. Answer choice (A) is therefore correct.
Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer choice. See discussion above.
Answer choice (B): Just because the legislators boost the funding for the inadequately provided public service does not mean that they will necessarily boost the funding for the bureaucracy providing that service. It is perfectly plausible that the bureaucracy itself receives decreased levels of funding. This answer choice is incorrect.
Answer choice (C): It is not necessary that legislators repeatedly boost the funding for the public service in question: multiple funding increases would only be necessary if the initial funding increase does not solve the problem, and only if subsequent inefficiencies are discovered and repeatedly addressed. It is perfectly possible that one boost in funding is sufficient to resolve the inefficiency.
Answer choice (D): The effect of boosting the funding for a public service is outside the scope of this argument, which is only about the cause of the increase – i.e. the discovery of a service that is not being adequately provided. Answer choice (D) expresses a negative view of government procedure, which may seem tempting, but is not supported by the information contained in the stimulus and is therefore incorrect.
Answer choice (E): This answer choice is an exaggeration and is therefore incorrect. Never attempt to infer absolute statements from information about relative claims.