LSAT Question Explanation
PT 105, Section 1, Question 24
PrinciplesArgument structure
Government should assume the costs of political campaigns.
We want political candidates to adhere to their personal principles. But campaigning is costly, leading people to take funding from private interests, often compromising their principles.
Explanation
This is flawed. The evidence here shows that private funding in campaigns can be against our best interests, but it hasn't proven that we should utilize government funding to fix the problem.
We need a principle in the answer choices that helps show that the government should fund campaigns because private funding hurts our interests.
Answer choices
This talks about the problem that the author is trying to solve, but doesn't help justify that government funding is the right solution.
This also doesn't address whether government funding is the proper solution.
This doesn't tell us government should fund campaigns.
This tells us that government should fund campaigns because currently our interests are threatened, and they could help fix the issue.
This doesn't tell us that government funding should be utilized.