The government' s proposed 8 percent cut in all subsidies to arts groups will be difficult for those groups to absorb. As can be seen, however, from their response to last year' s cut, it will not put them out of existence. Last year there was also an 8 percent cut, and though private fund-raising was very difficult for the arts groups in the current recessionary economy, they did survive. The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument
A: overlooks the possibility that the cumulative effect of the cuts will be more than the arts groups can withstand
B: equates the mere survival of the arts groups with their flourishing
C: relies without warrant on the probability that the economy will improve
D: does not take into account that the dollar amount of the proposed cut is lower than the dollar amount of last year's cut
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
A