June 2019 LSAT Section 2 Question 12

Regina: The additional revenue obtained from leasing government-owned toll bridges to private investors will be alloc...

dannyod on June 6, 2020

Answer D

How do we know that Regina does not agree that new revenue allocated to transportation will result in existing transportation funds being reallocated to other areas? All Regina actually says is that the *leases* will not be used to reduce shortfalls in other budget areas. Regina doesn't actually speak to the use of existing transportation funds, so why can we make this assumption?

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Victoria on June 6, 2020

Hi @dannyod,

I agree that this question does require you to make a bit of an assumption.

Regina does not explicitly state what might happen to existing transportation funds; however, they do seem to have a couple implicit assumptions underlying their argument.

Premise: The lease money will be allocated to the transportation budget

Assumption: The lease money will simply increase the transportation budget i.e. any excess funds will not be allocated

Conclusion: The lease money will not help reduce shortfalls in other budget areas

Implicit in the assumption above is also the assumption that the lease money will not help to reduce these shortfalls even by freeing up other areas of the transportation budget.

Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any further questions.

alicat6 on August 24, 2020

I was also confused about this. I was going to pick D, then because it said "existing," which is out the bounds of the stimulus, I did not choose it. I guess in situations like these do I need to try to find a reason why the other answer choice(s) I have still standing are wrong to help me figure out the right answer?

Victoria on September 8, 2020

Hi @alicat6,

That's right!

The good thing about the LSAT is that one answer is right while the other four are wrong - it's not that one answer choice is "more right" or "better" than the others. This means that you can point to a reason why every other answer choice is wrong.

In cases where you are stuck choosing between the last couple of answer choices, this is definitely a helpful trick!

Keep up the good work and please let us know if you have any further questions.

Victoria on September 10, 2020

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