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本帖最后由 PsMaggie 于 2010-8-3 00:53 编辑
TOPIC: ARGUMENT237 - The following appeared as part of an article in a local Beauville newspaper.
"According to a government report, last year the city of Dillton reduced its corporate tax rate by 15 percent; at the same time, it began offering relocation grants and favorable rates on city utilities to any company that would relocate to Dillton. Within 18 months, two manufacturing companies moved to Dillton, where they employ a total of 300 people. Therefore, the fastest way for Beauville to stimulate economic development and hence reduce unemployment is to provide tax incentives and other financial inducements that encourage private companies to relocate here."
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TIME: 01:16:30
DATE: 2010/7/31 11:50:32
The arguer gives an advice to Beauville that the government might as well encourage private companies to relocate there through the same way as Dillton such as provides tax incentives and the like. To justify this statement, he provides the evidence that two manufacturing companies moved to Dillton and employed 300 people when Dillton announced the policy of reducing corporate tax rate by 15 and offering relocation grants and favorable rates. It make sense at the first glance. However, after careful examination we can count plenty of flaws out.
First of all the author is unreasonable to substantiate the two companies' moving to D is relevant to D's supporting private companies policy. What we only know is that the two things, companies moving in and getting a multitude of employers and the government's claim, happened in a same time. But this isn't enough to prop up the author's conclude totally. In the first place, there may have lots of other factors which cause the two to move in. Companies moved to D may on the ground that they have grown themselves larger and larger thus as a result they need to expand business so they built up new in D, and the reasons may also be such as their corporate business were meeting the plant capacity requirements of D, or the migrant workers are far more than other city or even that the bosses found girlfriends in D. In the second place, the employment of 300 persons can't be attributed to the government either. The two companies found those employers may thanks to the HR's sharpness, or the population of D is already far more than the other cities'. Therefore, in this case if we owe the consequence to D's government's policy it would be too hasty.
Secondly, given that the two companies indeed benefited from D's government, it also lacked of more data to explain all the companies would benefit from it. This argument makes mistakes in data and time. As what we find, there are only two companies suffered this situation while we have no idea how many companies are there in D in total. There might be a hundreds of, who can tell. The speaker jumps to a conclusion without enough investigation. The speaker need to supply more things like the numbers of companies moving in recently, the situation of old companies in D after news came, the disparities between those who enjoyed government resources and those didn't and so on. Furthermore, it happened one year ago. The author unfairly assumes that D's current prosperity, if any, results from the policies implemented last year.
Thirdly, to say the least that D's policy of supporting private companies relocating is effectual all right, there is nothing to say that it would also make sense in B. First of all, the geographical environment in B may be different from D which plays an important part in a company's running. Second, the urban conditions such as population, employment status, consumptive level of B may distinct from D as well. What's more, there may live far more beautiful and handsome where may probably attract boss to migrate. Therefore, granted that the policy is responsible for the prosperity of D, we cannot ensure that B could experience the same prosperity through providing similar incentives.
To be sure that there still exist many other deficiencies. For instance, the arguer ignores other possible methods that may improve B's economy more efficiently, and he fails to substantiate the assumption that during the last 18 months all conditions upon which the effectiveness of the policy depends have remained unchanged and granted such incentives are indeed necessary, the author fails to illustrate why we should target on private companies.
To conclude, the conclusion lacks credibility because the evidence cited in the analysis does not lend strong support to what the arguer maintains. To better evaluate the argument, we would need more information regarding the current economic situation relevant to B's development.
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第一次自改:
The arguer gives an advice to Beauville that the government might as well encourage private companies to relocate there through the same way as Dillton such as provides tax incentives and the like. To justify this statement, he provides the evidence that two manufacturing companies moved to Dillton and employed 300 people when Dillton announced the policy of reducing corporate tax rate by 15 and offering relocation grants and favorable rates. It make sense at the first glance. However, after careful examination we can count plenty of flaws out.
First of all, the author is unreasonable to substantiate the two companies' moving to D is relevant to D's supporting private companies policy. What we only know is that the two things, companies moving in and getting a multitude of employers and the government's claim, happened in a same time. But this isn't enough to prop up the author's conclusion totally. In the first place, there may be lots of other factors which cause the two to move in. Companies moved to D may on the ground that they have grown themselves larger and larger thus as a result they need to expand business so they built up new in D, and the reasons may also be such as their corporate business were meeting the plant capacity requirements of D, or the migrant workers are far more than other city or even that the bosses found girlfriends in D. In the second place, the employment of 300 persons can't be attributed to the government either. The two companies found those employers may thanks to the HR's sharpness, or the population of D is already far more than the other cities'. Therefore, in this case if we owe the consequence to D's government's policy it would be too hasty.
Secondly, given that the two companies indeed benefited from D's government, it also lacked of more data to explain all the companies would benefit from it. This argument makes mistakes in data and time. As what we find, there are only two companies suffered this situation while we have no idea how many companies are there in D in total. There might be a hundreds of, who can tell. The speaker jumps to a conclusion without enough investigation. The speaker need to supply more things like the numbers of companies moving in recently, the situation of old companies in D after the news came, the disparities between those who enjoyed government resources and those didn't and so on. Furthermore, it happened one year ago. The author unfairly assumes that D's current prosperity, if any, results from the policies implemented last year.
Thirdly, to say the least that D's policy of supporting private companies relocating is effectual all right, there is nothing to say that it would also make sense in B. First of all, the geographical environment in B may be different from D which plays an important part in a company's running. Second, the urban conditions such as population, employment status, consumptive level of B may distinct from D as well. What's more, there may live far more beauties and handsome persons where may probably attract boss to migrate. Therefore, granted that the policy is responsible for the prosperity of D, we cannot ensure that B could experience the same prosperity through providing similar incentives.
To be sure that there still exist many other deficiencies. For instance, the arguer ignores other possible methods that may improve B's economy more efficiently, and he fails to substantiate the assumption that during the last 18 months all conditions upon which the effectiveness of the policy depends have remained unchanged and granted such incentives are indeed necessary, the author fails to illustrate why we should target on private companies.
To conclude, the conclusion lacks credibility because the evidence cited in the analysis does not lend strong support to what the arguer maintains. To better evaluate the argument, we would need more information regarding the current economic situation relevant to B's development. |
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