Mr. Ivers: If democratic governments are run like profit-making organi

­We need to refute Mr.Iver's argument which states that profit making will not be in public interests and will finally lead to the doomsday. So option C doesnt state whether the development efforts are beneficial to the public or the government itself, which, unlike C, B exclusively states.

Argument - Ivers points out that government shouldn't make profits as they are meant to work for public welfare. Lobo counters saying that they indeed do need profits, as large scale initiatives require good amount of money and with these profits government can efficiently manage these initiatives.

Which one of the following, if true, would most strengthen Ms. Lobo’s attempt to refute Mr. Iver’s claim?

To strengthen, we need to find out an option which makes sure that profits are being invested for public interests tying up the whole argument and removing possibilities of misusing this money.

A. Governments earn a large amount of money through profits from their own initiatives. Even if they do, this doesn't help us justify if the government is investing back this money for public welfare. What if they are squandering all these profits?

B. Most profits through government initiatives are invested in development efforts for public interests. Nice, this fills in the gap and strengthens the argument that indeed profits are well invested for the public welfare.

C. Without making profits, governments cannot implement development efforts. True, but it's a negation trap mentioning that without profits governments cannot invest in public welfare but with profits will they? We don't know for sure, hence this still leaves a gap area to conclude anything strongly.

D. Greater profits in government projects will contribute to reducing the fiscal deficit. We are not concerned with fiscal deficit for our given argument. This statement is correct if we apply general knowledge but for the sake of this argument we just want to know whether these profits are being invested for public interests or not.

E. Taxes, the largest contributor to government profits, are accepted worldwide as a form of government income. Not relevant, as we don't care from where the government is making profits from ie. tax or import/export. This is a causality trap, where we are being told from where the profits are coming from rather than knowing that where the profits are being spent.

Answer: B