Argument177

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In this argument the arguer concludes that the membership in OakCity's civic Club should continue to be restricted to people who live in OakCity. The arguer uses the reasons below to sustain this idea. People who work in OakCity but who live elsewhere cannot truly understand the business and politics of the city. It is important to restrict membership to city residents because only residents who pay city taxes and therefore only residents understand how the money could best be used to improve the city. At any rate, restricting membership in this way is unlikely to disappoint many of the nonresidents employed in OakCity, since neighboring ElmCity's Civic Club has always had an open membership policy, and only twenty-five nonresidents have joined ElmCity's Club in the last ten years.

First of all there is no evidence that people who do not live in the city cannot truly understand the business and politics of the city. Even though they do not live in the city they may also know the city well at least in some aspects. For work in a city also involved many fields of the city. For example they may highly familiar with traffic and communication in the city because these are important and daily use for work.

Secondly, although they do not pay taxes it does not suggest they do not know how the money should could bet is used to improve the city. The knowledge of how the money should be used does not decide on whether they pay the taxes or not. An extreme example is that experts of city planning may have never pay taxes for all the cities they have ever designed. People who work but not live in the city may have special idea on how the money should use. Sometimes these ideas are useful.

Finally, there is on evidence show that what happened to ElmCity's Club will also happened to us. Though we are neighbors there may be much difference between two cities. The reason that only twenty-five nonresidents have joined ElmCity's Club may be there are not many people who work but live in ElmCity. If the number of this kind of people is huge the result will be different. The number of City Club may sharply decrease.

In sum, this argument is filled with untenable statements as discussed in the preceding paragraphs, which render it unacceptable and beg further and more comprehensive consideration.