Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Editorial: Our provinceS legislature will soon vote on a measure that

­­Editorial: Our province's legislature will soon vote on a measure that would allow government employee unions to bargain over wages. Some critics claim this measure would increase wages and thus exacerbate our province's budget deficit. But in fact, it would probably reduce the deficit. The province immediately north of ours allows such union bargaining, and its budget deficit is lower than our province's—and lower than it was before the province allowed unionbargaining.

The conclusion of the argument is thefollowing:

it (a measure that would allow government employee unions to bargain over wages) would probably reduce thedeficit

The support for the conclusion is thefollowing:

The province immediately north of ours allows such union bargaining, and its budget deficit is lower than our province's—and lower than it was before the province allowed unionbargaining.

So, the argument uses the fact that another province allows union bargaining and has a budget
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Statistics : Posted by RowdyHowdy • on 27 Feb 2024, 23:12 • Replies 5 • Views 501

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