Ethicist Ingrid Robeyns views the use of tax havens (territories such as Switzerland with low tax rates for investors who reside outside those territories) as a means of tax avoidance that, though legally permissible, may not be morally legitimate if it is used by investors to sidestep payment toward government upkeep. Economist Gabriel Zucman finds that 8% of worldwide household wealth is held in tax havens. Zucman also finds that use of tax havens differs between countries—they are rarely used by investors living in South Korea, while many investors who utilize them reside in Argentina or Venezuela.
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hardWhich choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
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It describes an argument made by one scholar regarding economic policy, then uses the research of a second scholar to point out flaws in that argument.
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It makes a claim about what constitutes profitable investment based on the research of one scholar, then uses a second scholar’s findings to support that claim.
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It recounts how a scholar came to hold that a particular economic behavior is morally indefensible, then details the results of a study by a second scholar that lend credence to that position.
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It offers one scholar’s opinion of an economic mechanism, then presents a second scholar’s findings concerning the prevalence of that mechanism’s use.