[ 495 ] Economics GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW _____________ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • “Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.” —Marco Rubio U.S. Senator from Florida August 24, 2011 Based on the quote, which inference could most clearly and reasonably be drawn regarding Rubio’s opinion insofar as the free enterprise system? a. Poverty causes the existence of the free enterprise system. b. Without prosperity, poverty and the free enterprise system would be stronger. c. Poverty in nations is caused by prosperity in the free enterprise system. d. Without the free enterprise system, many more people would be experiencing poverty.