12. Due to an unanticipated decline in tax revenues, the community of Clearsky, New Hampshire has been required to revisit its budget allocation for health care. At a town meeting, community members voted to eliminate the town's highly regarded breakfast program for its limited number of poor pre-age school children in order to ensure that adequate funds would be available so that its sizeable elderly population could receive flu shots. The decision by community members reflects:

Group of answer choices

a. An egalitarian distributional ethic.

b. A Rawlsian distributional ethic.

c. A libertarian distributional ethic.

d. A utilitarian distributional ethic.