medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
The city council's plan to increase the sales tax is intended to fund a new park. Because most residents oppose the sales tax increase, the council should abandon its plan for the new park.
Which of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
- There is no other workable way to pay for the new park apart from raising the sales tax.
- A majority of council members originally backed the proposed sales tax increase.
- The new park would go unused by most of the city's residents.
- Sales taxes tend to be more regressive than property taxes.
- Most residents who oppose the sales tax increase also oppose building the new park itself.
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