Economic Effect Overread
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Constitutional Law1
Example wrong choices
14342_scripturequest_finals_tax · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice Aunconstitutional, because a 48% tax is likely to reduce attendance at championship game tournaments and therefore is not rationally related to Congress's legitimate interest in reducing the federal budget deficit.
Why it's attractive
It assumes reduced attendance defeats revenue fit.
Why it's wrong
It assumes reduced attendance defeats revenue fit.
14342_scripturequest_finals_tax · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice Bconstitutional, because the compelling national interest in reducing the federal budget deficit justifies the tax as a temporary emergency measure.
Why it's attractive
It imports compelling-interest review into a federal revenue-tax call.
Why it's wrong
It imports compelling-interest review into a federal revenue-tax call.
14342_scripturequest_finals_tax · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice Cunconstitutional, because Congress violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment by singling out championship game tournaments for the tax while leaving other ticketed entertainment events untaxed.
Why it's attractive
It treats not taxing every similar event as constitutional failure.
Why it's wrong
It treats not taxing every similar event as constitutional failure.
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