这题答案给的D, 不大明白：题干说现行的农业政策是对消费者的惩罚，因为它增加了食物的价格，以及纳税者每年10亿的税额；问支持的?

Current farm policy is institutionalized penalization of consumers. It increases food prices for middle- and low-income families and costs the taxpayer billions of dollars a year.

Which of the following statements, if true, would provide support for the author’s claims above?

I. Farm subsidies amount to roughly $20 billion a year in federal payouts and $12 billion more in higher food prices.

农业补贴每年大约需要政府20billion的支出，而食品价格增加12billion; 这个怎么支持的？

II. According to a study by the Department of Agriculture, each $1 of benefits provided to farmers for ethanol production costs consumers and taxpayers $4.

对于酒精产品每4美元的成本加税，可获利1美元， 这又是怎么支持的呢？

III. The average full-time farmers have an average net worth of over $300,000.

(A) I only

(B) II only

(C) III only

(D) I and II only（D）

(E) I, II, and III

盼“明人”指点啊！

Please see the highlighted:

I. Farm subsidies amount to roughly $20 billion a year in federal payouts (costs the taxpayer billions of dollars a year) and $12 billion more in higher food prices (increases food prices ).

II. According to a study by the Department of Agriculture, each $1 of benefits provided to farmers for ethanol production costs consumers and taxpayers $4 (institutionalized penalization of consumers ... costs the taxpayer billions of dollars a year).