Recall the Application About Towns That Built Clock Towers to Help

question 387

Multiple Choice

Recall the Application about towns that built clock towers to help their citizens keep track of time to answer the following question(s) .
-Recall the Application. Before people generally carried their own time pieces, towns often built their own clock towers. In these situations there was a free rider problem because:

• A)many people at that time refused to pay taxes.
• B)towns paid for the clock towers with voluntary contributions.
• C)few people could tell time.
• D)only a small fraction of the population was taxed by the towns.

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