many lawmakers would forgo higher salaries as heads of charities rather than see the nation's finances handled imprudently many lawmakers are heads of charities only to receive salaries based on government subsidies many lawmakers' opportunistic instincts might prevent them from handling the nation's finances prudently with respect to deciding charitable subsidies many heads of charities are undeserving of higher salaries
In country Y, the subsidies to charities are set by the nation' s lawmakers. Since one of the lawmakers' chief duties is to handle the nation' s finances prudently rather than irresponsibly, it was assumed that this method of deciding charitable subsidies would be fair. However, this method of deciding charitable subsidies is clearly flawed, as most of country Y' s lawmakers are actually heads of charities themselves and command their salaries as heads of these charities based on government subsidies.
The argument made by the author of the paragraph is that the current method of deciding charitable subsidies might not be wise because