medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
An advocate for a new tax policy states: "Every country that has implemented this tax has seen an increase in its economic growth rate. Therefore, our country will also experience growth if we implement it."
The advocate's reasoning depends on assuming which one of the following?
- A pattern that has held across the other countries adopting the tax will likewise hold for this particular country.
- The tax policy is the sole available means by which a country can raise its economic growth rate.
- None of the countries that adopted the tax owed any part of their growth to factors other than the tax.
- The public in this country will support implementing the new tax.
- Every country that has not adopted the tax has failed to achieve economic growth.
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