February 1994 LSAT Section 1 Question 19

Fares on the city–run public buses in Greenville are subsidized by city tax revenues, but among the beneficiaries of ...

Ashley-Tien-2 on July 15, 2021

Answer choice C

I doubt anyone is going to see this, but I want to know why C weakens the argument. C is talking about people who are not paying taxes and the city councillor's plan was made to benefit taxpayers so aren't low income residents thereby irrelevant to the argument at hand?

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ScienceMathTutor on January 13, 2022

I thought so at first as well....but ALL councellors agree that they don't want to disadvantage these non tax payers vs only some want to raise the rates?

Jay-Etter on January 28, 2022

Hi @Ashley-Tien-2 and @ScienceMathTutor,

This is a tricky one! Ashley is correct that at first glance C seems irrelevant and that it therefore would probably be the correct answer. However, the second part of C tells us all city councilors agree that low-income residents should be able to take advantage of city-run services. If this is the case, the city councilors who think bus fares should be raised would be in a contradictory position. C is therefore evidence against this point of view.

D is correct for the same reason that we thought C might be - it's irrelevant. First of all we don't care about what the voters want, but more importantly we're proposing raising the bus fare, NOT the local taxes (like D addressed).