Table 22-10 The Town of Franklin Is Facing a Severe Budget Shortage

Multiple Choice

Table 22-10
The town of Franklin is facing a severe budget shortage. The town administrator has proposed four options to balance the budget: increase property taxes (taxes) , cut the school arts budget (arts) , turn off half of the streetlights in the town (streetlights) , reduce police patrols (police) . Exactly one of the four choices will prevail, and the choice will be made by way of pairwise voting, with the majority determining the outcome on each vote. The preferences of the voters are summarized in the table below.
-Refer to Table 22-10. If the town administrator asks voters to choose first between reducing police patrols and increasing taxes, and then between the winner of the first vote and cutting the school arts budget, and then between the winner of the second vote and turning off half of the streetlights, which choice will win the final vote?

A) arts
B) police
C) streetlights
D) taxes