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ID: LSAT-LR-074
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Main Point
Difficulty level: Hard

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It is said that the new stadium will pay for itself through the spending of the people it brings into the town. Most of those people already live within twenty miles, and money they spend at the stadium on a Saturday is money they would have spent in the town on some other Saturday. What the stadium moves is when the spending happens, and where within the town. Neither is nothing. Neither is new money.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

AMoney that visitors spend at the stadium on a Saturday is worth less to the town than the same money would have been worth spent in the town's shops on some other Saturday.

BThe stadium will not pay for itself, because the money spent there is money the town would have taken in anyway.

CThe new stadium will bring the town no benefit at all, since any money spent there on a Saturday would have reached the town's businesses in any case.

DMost of the people whose spending the new stadium is expected to attract already live within twenty miles of the town, and would have spent that money in the town on some other Saturday.

EThe stadium will move existing local spending to a different time and a different part of the town rather than generate any spending that is new.

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