Questions

DIRECTIONS: For the bolded part of each statement, circle the correct answer.

1. Mexican cartels have been stealing vehicles from the U.S.  Texas / California is the easiest state to initiate these thefts because of the state's restrictive privacy laws on GPS tracking of rental vehicles.

2. The cartels prefer heavy-duty pickup trucks and Jeeps / sports cars because they can drive through tough terrain to move drugs.

3. One tactic cartels use is to hire people via social media to rent a vehicle, get the damage waiver that includes covering the car if it is stolen, and then leave the keys in the vehicle in the rental parking lot / abandon the vehicle in a remote U.S. location for a cartel operative to pick up.

4. Once the stolen vehicles are in Mexico, the cartels then pay U.S. Border Patrol / corrupt Mexican officials to obtain valid Mexican plates and registration for the vehicles.

5. Recovering the stolen rental vehicles is made complicated because a vehicle is not officially considered stolen until it appears in the U.S. stolen vehicle registry / is reported missing by the rental company.

6. The White House Council of Economic Advisers released a report analyzing seven policies in the DSA platform and determined they would cost nearly $49 trillion / $4.9 trillion over the next 10 years after accounting for revenue from a proposed wealth tax.

7. One of the DSA's policies not analyzed for cost in the Council of Economic Advisers report was the cost for abolishing the police and prison system / open borders and amnesty for all.

8. Other goals of the DSA are to abolish the Electoral College and replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress, as well as to abolish the House of Representatives / abolish the Senate.

9. Current Democratic Socialists in Congress include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Senator Rand Paul / Senator Bernie Sanders.

10. The Democratic Socialists of America said its membership reached a record 120,000 / 1.2 million this summer while its candidates won a series of Democratic primaries.