Municipal Employment Training Centre vs Community college

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A municipal employment training center plans to offer tax deductions for local workers who take classes that retrain workers in high-tech job skills. Although employing these workers in local jobs that require high-tech skills will generate tax profits that exceed the cost of the tax deductions, this practice is unwise. Local community colleges could offer classes to train students in high-tech job skills without offering these students tax deductions.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the training center's policy of offering tax deductions for local workers?

A. There will be virtually no difference between the future tax profits generated by workers who retrain in high-tech job skills at the training center and those generated by the students who receive retraining in high-tech job skills at community college classes.
B. Over 90 of workers who have completed retraining at the municipal employment training center have gone on to gain employment in high-tech industries, either locally or in neighboring cities.
C. Establishing job skill classes at the retraining center uses substantially less capital stemming from current tax revenues than would establishing classes at the community college.
D. Retrained workers now account for nearly half of the new hires in the municipality, with this number expected to grow, while the hiring rate for untrained workers has stayed constant.E
E. The training center offers training in spreadsheets, data entry, multimedia presentations, and other skills that companies rank as most important for their employees to know, as does the community college.

[spoiler]OA: C. Source: Knewton. [/spoiler]
Last edited by rahulvsd on Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:53 am, edited 1 time in total.
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by sam2304 » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:51 am
The question stem is missing.
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by rahulvsd » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:53 am
Apologies for missing it. Have edited the post.

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by sam2304 » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:49 am
Training center gives tax deductions for local workers who take classes.
Employing these workers will generate tax profits > tax deductions - The practice is unwise.
Local community colleges could offer classes without offering tax deductions to students.

We are asked to support why training center's policy is better than colleges.

A - No effect
B - Irrelevant
C - Strengthener - The plan promotes tax deductions and generate more tax profits. If capital involved in less in training center than community colleges then the plan is fine.
D - Irrelevant
E - Irrelevant

IMO C.
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