In many corporations, employees are being replaced by automated equipment in order to save money. However, many workers who lose their jobs to automation will need government assistance to survive, and the same corporations that are laying people off will eventually pay for that assistance through increased taxes and unemployment insurance payments. Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the author's argument? (A) Many workers who have already lost their jobs to automation have been unable to find new jobs. (B) Many corporations that have failed to automate have seen their profits decline. (C) Taxes and unemployment insurance are paid also by corporations that are not automating. (D) Most of the new jobs created by automation pay less than the jobs eliminated by automation did. (E) The initial investment in machinery for automation is often greater than the short-term savings in labor costs.

A

Step-by-step explanation:

The question presents a beautiful case wherein we are talking about corporations replacing the workforce due to automation due to technological advancements. Now this same corporations will pay more tax because the people disengaged would be needing government support. So this is trying to work like say the money that would have been paid to the workforce as salary and wages are now used to support them indirectly as it is being paid as taxes in increments.

The correct answer here is A. If the option is true, it most strengthens the argument. This is because if the disengaged workers had found another job, they Would have no need to depend on government support and thus companies wouldn't need to pay more.

But here, we are looking at the option that gives strength to the argument. Hence what we say is that due to their impossibility yo get new jobs, they turn to the government who in turn collects more from these Corporations