Given that tariffs and quotas cost consumers and that they are a grossly inefficient means for creating or preserving jobs , citizens nevertheless allow these policies to exist because
A. the costs of tariffs and quotas are diffused throughout an entire nation, while the benefits are concentrated.
B. they know that petitioning the government to do the right thing is futile.
C. incentives to organize around the issue of trade policy are asymmetric.
D. all of the above.
E. A and C only.
Answer: E. A and C only.
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