Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Tariffs on particular products tend to protect the small percentage of

Tariffs on particular products tend to protect the small percentage of the population that works in industries
that make those products while hurting everyone else through higher costs. Polls show that in fact most people oppose such tariffs. So politicians would be more likely to be reelected if they voted against these tariffs.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?

(A) Supporters of tariffs on particular products are not significantly more likely than opponents to base their vote for a politician on the politician's stand on this issue. - CORRECT. It stretches the two ends which goes against the conclusion. On one hand the supports don't vote and on the other hand opponents too think otherwise to not vote in favour of that politician. 

(B) Politicians always voteaccording to what is most likely to get them reelected. - WRONG. Politicians' vote don't matter.

(C) Politicians should support only generaltariffs , since such tariffs would be more
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Statistics : Posted by unraveled • on 16 Aug 2018, 04:00 • Replies 12 • Views 5752

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