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An analyst evaluates the following argument: 'The new safety regulation will increase costs for small businesses. Therefore, the regulation should be repealed.'
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
- Small businesses are the backbone of the entire national economy.
- Large businesses will not face any comparable increase in their costs.
- Every small business will be forced to close down unless the regulation is repealed.
- The regulation will produce no genuine safety benefits whatsoever for anyone.
- A regulation should be repealed if it increases costs for small businesses.
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