Politician: All nations that place a high tax on income

Option A - INCORRECT.
This option has weakens the politician argument. The politician has made his point on 30% of taxation at most for a favorable investment atmosphere and not 45% that sound outrageous and might scare investors and industrialist away and create no room for new industries and technological innovations.

Option B - CORRECT.
This option is the most suitable option to express the politician's argument. Making a great deal of money through high TAX on income collected from citizens is an insignificant factor in driving technological innovation. Because after making an outrageous accumulated fund the selfish politician will still savage most of it and use little to finance technological innovation and industrialization. However, with this motive or action the nation won't be able to maintain the value and way of life of the nation and this may lead the nation to loose its voice in World affairs.

Option C - INCORRECT.
Falling behind in the international arms race is of great disadvantage to a nation, because it implies that the nation is of poor growth, uncivilized and has no value for technology innovation.

Option D - INCORRECT.
Nations that lose influence in the world community suffer from a threat to their value system and way of life and this is caused by high tax place on income which thereby produce a negative incentive for technological innovations.

Option E - INCORRECT.
This option is also in support of the politicians argument but not strong enough. Allowing one's nation to lose its technological edge is foolishness and not just a mere historical accident, because this foolishness has caused the nation to suffer from threat on value system and way of life also causing the nation to lose their voice and position in the world affairs.