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The author concludes that rapid population growth can greatly harm small cities. This is because population surges can overload city services and throw off the ratio of municipal staff to residents. Furthermore, these problems usually can’t be fixed by rapid additional hiring due to budget limitations.

The author assumes that city revenues don’t grow substantially when new residents move into a city. Otherwise, city budgets could be adjusted to allow for more hiring, which would mitigate the problems caused by population surges.

The author also assumes that the consequences of rapid growth can be accurately described as "disastrous."

For this to help us, we would need to establish that this kind of reallocation counts as a “disastrous consequence” of budget shortages. Without that, it doesn't provide support.

This neither strengthens nor weakens the author's argument, because it doesn't have anything to do with the budgetary consequences of rapid growth. This is just a neutral fact.

The author’s argument is about why small cities specifically struggle to absorb rapid population growth. Large cities aren't relevant.

This is irrelevant. We don’t care why people moved to the city in the first place, just about the effects of population growth.

This affirms the assumption that city revenues don't increase with population growth—at least, not within the first year. That strengthens the conclusion that small cities can be left in budgetary crisis.

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