Definitely, a victory 小组第4次作业 Argument237 By3号echo（huohuo0101）

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237The 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."
作者认为刺激B市经济发展最快的方法就是提供经济上的优惠吸引公司来B市，结论得出的根据是D市的例子 。逻辑错误是
1B市的情况与D市不同，有可能， B市的情况不符合
2也有可能，经济优惠政策提出之前，两家公司就已经下定决心进驻了。两家公司是看中了D市本身有很好的发展潜力，而不是经济优惠政策。
3仅仅18个月吸引两家生产公司，雇用了300个人。这个数据对到底对快速提升本地经济起了多大作用。
4没有证据证明经济政策能在B市带来可观回报
The speaker proposes that the city of Beauvile should provide financial inducements to encourage private companies to relocate there thus to stimulate economic development and reduce unemployment. The proposal is based on an analogy with the city of Dillton which receive certain effects on reducing unemployment by 300 people through lowering corporate tax rate and providing privilege of using city utility. The proposal is unpersuasive on several aspects.

To begin with, analogy between city of Beauvile and Dilltion is not justifiable. The speaker fail to provide any evidence showing that two cities share anything in common. Perhaps, city of Dilltion is located in mountain area featuring light industry while city of Beauvile is a coast city whose dominant industry is tourism. If so, the methods used in Dillton to stimulate economic development can not be adopted in Beauvile.



Second, the speaker assumes that two manufacturing companies came to Dilltion because of the financial incentives. While he/she fail to rule out the fact that the companies had determined
to relocate in Dillton before the financial incentives coming up. Maybe they are attracted by the city’s potential of development.

Third, the evidence showing that relocation of two companies truly have helped improve the local economy is not sufficient. the achievement that two companies relocated in the city in 18 months employing 300 people does not mean the inducements are paid off. To what extend does employing 300 people contribute to reducing unemployment?
Maybe it is just a drop of water to the desert not to mention investment put in reducing tax rate and providing varieties of privileges.



Finally, to assure the effect of those economic policy, precondition and consequences should be considered. What if the market in Beauvile is not ready for other companies? Local companies may get stroked down by other companies entering with low cost. If so, the bad consequence would weighs over the benefits.


To sum up, the speaker made inappropriate analogy and fail to provide strong evidence to substantiate the assumptions thus made the proposal unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster the proposal, the speaker has two find the common ground for his analogy between two cites. And also clear evidence that the companies relocated in Dillton because of the financial incentives and that the consequent achievement is impressive. At last, the speaker must assess the precondition and consequences, and make sure the proposed economic policy is rewarding.