大全-a-17

zhangyy85

17. With Proposition 13, if you bought your house 11 years ago for $75,000, your property tax would be approximately $914 a year (1 percent of $75,000 increased by 2 percent each year for 11 years); and if your neighbor bought an identical house next door to you for $200,000 this year, his tax would be $2,000 (1 percent of $200,000). Without Proposition 13, both you and your neighbor would pay $6,000 a year in property taxes (3 percent of $200,000).

Which of the following is the conclusion for which the author most likely is arguing in the passage above?

(A) Proposition 13 is unconstitutional because it imposes an unequal tax on properties of equal value.

(B) If Proposition 13 is repealed, every homeowner is likely to experience a substantial increase in property taxes.

(C) By preventing inflation from driving up property values, Proposition 13 has saved homeowners thousands of dollars in property taxes.

(D) If Proposition 13 is not repealed, identical properties will continue to be taxed at different rates.（B）

(E) Proposition 13 has benefited some homeowners more than others.

它这个数是怎么算的呀，没看懂，晕。

zhangyy85

尤其是最后一个，两种房子的价格不一样，怎么会付同样的钱呢？

gifile

最后一个是根据房子的现价来定的tax（3%），所以一样啊。

mingzhu11

brain storming on processing this problem:

A: unconstitutional & C: preventing inflation are totally out of scope.

E is not supported with any inforamtion. You can not draw a conclution that some benifit more than other by referring the two buyers in the context.

D is wrong according to the information in context. Identical house will be taxed at the same tax rate, 1% of the purchasing price in the first year and 2% increased every year later.

B is right: the new buyer saves at least 2% * purchase price, while the older buyer saves 6000 - X;