QUESTION TEXT: Allowing more steel imports would depress domestic…
QUESTION TYPE: Parallel Reasoning
CONCLUSION: The government won’t get rid of steel import restrictions.
REASONING: The government won’t hurt the steel industry. Allowing more imports would hurt the steel industry.
ANALYSIS: This is a good argument. This question is pretty easy if can just wade through answers A-D, which are all bad arguments.
The basic structure is:
X will harm Y. The organization won’t support X, because the organization doesn’t support anything that harms Y.
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- This is a bad argument. Confidence in the economy is a necessary condition for construction but it isn’t a sufficient condition.
- Hard to say. Current laws might not be very effective at keeping people safe if they work at computers.
- This is a bad argument. It hasn’t shown that deregulation caused airline bankruptcies. It’s only shown that the two things happened together.
- I personally would be glad to receive a bonus, even if I had to pay tax on it. I like getting money, even if I lose part of it. This is a bad argument, because it hasn’t shown the executive is unwilling to pay taxes.
- CORRECT. This is a good argument. See the discussion in “Analysis” for the structure.
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