Many factors need to be evaluated by equality advocates with respect to RUOPs to determine their impact on decreasing income inequality. Which of the following factors is NOT one that the author mentions needs to be evaluated: Question 31 options: a) research is needed to determine if specific changes in the tax code would actually reduce income inequality by decreasing resources of the affluent and increasing resources of people in the lower economic strata. b) whether imposing tariffs on products produced by companies which move out of the U. S. would cause trade wars, would lead to a loss of jobs in the U. S. , or would induce companies to return to the U. S. c) equality advocates need to evaluate expenditures to see if they deserve the title of "wasteful expenditures". d) whether there is sustained value in diverting funding for the building of new prisons to educational programs for the lower class instead