During his four years in office, William Taft fought against the Trusts in many cases, he doubled the cases against Trusts than Roosevelt. He sued and won cases against Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the American Tobacco Company and the Sugar Trust and U.S Steel.
Taft’s antitrust efforts were criticized because many said that he did not differ good trusts from bad trusts.
A. seems the most likely because rest are absurd. Increase in profits = less money to spend which = more money to spend on ads or add more goods to make at the factory