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Politician: Support All nations that place a high tax on income produce thereby a negative incentive for technological innovation, and Support all nations in which technological innovation is hampered inevitably fall behind in the international arms race. █████ ███████ █████ ███████ ██████████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ █████ █████████ ███████████ ████ ██ ██ █ █████████████ ███████████████ ████████ ███ ████████ ██ ████ █████ █████ ██ █████ ████████ ██ ██ █ ██████ █████ ██ ████████ ███ █████ ██████ ███ ███ ██ █████ ██ ████ ███ █████ ███ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ███████ ██ ███████
Summarize Argument
The politician concludes that nations should tax income only at rates lower than 30 percent in order to maintain their value system and way of life. For support, he cites a general rule: a high income tax produces a negative incentive for innovation, which causes a country to fall behind in the arms race. This causes those nations to lose international power, a circumstance threatening their values and way of life.
Notable Assumptions
The politician makes many assumptions. He assumes an income tax bracket exceeding 30 percent is high enough to produce a negative incentive for innovation, that such an incentive always hampers innovation, that falling behind in the arms race means suffering a “strategically disadvantageous position,” and that a nation that loses power internationally is at risk of compromising its way of life and values.
Analysis by LukeWilson
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