Question

QUESTION 2 Magdalena believes the following: Lifetime income is largely determined by birth luck (genes, inherited wealth, etc.). Magdalena supports an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit, known as EITC, which is a wage subsidy for low wage workers. Magdalena's beliefs should favor Nozickian economic policies, however the policies she supports are in line with Utilitarian or Rawisian principles by Magdalena's beliefs should favor non-Nozickian economic policies: the policies she supports are in line with Utilitarian or Rawisian principles C) Magdalena's beliefs should favor non-Nozickian economic policies: the policies she supports are in line with Utilitarian or Rawisian principles d) Magdalena's beliefs should favor non-Nozickian economic policies: however, the policies she supports are not in line with Utilitarian or Rawisan principles. e) Magdalena's beliefs and economic policies are not consistent with Nozicklan principles Magdalena's beliefs and economic policies are not consistent with Rawisian prinoples p) Magdalena's beliefs and economic policies are not consistent with utilitarian principles

Answer 1

Correct option: (a)

Reason: Magdalena believes in promoting equality among the rich and the poor by promoting the poor through wage subsidies. This is in line with Nozick as well as Rawlsian and Utilitarian principles who believe in promoting equality and justice among the masses by uplifting the poor and not necessarily taxing the rich.