DISCUSSION: See lines 40-50. The author claims that everyone agrees taxes are justified if they benefit the nation.
The four wrong answers provide examples of taxes that benefit the nation.
The right answer is a tax that benefits foreigners.
___________
- This helps protect the nation.
- CORRECT. Helping foreigners may be a nice thing to do, but it’s not clear how this directly helps the nation.
- The standing army protects the nation. Opponents of conscription would be fine with this as long as there was no conscription.
- Dams and bridges provide a benefit for the nation.
- Helping citizens who were hurt by natural disasters provides a benefit to the nation.
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