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Government leaders’ wish to use the surplus to pay down the national debt makes no sense. This is because the country is underfunded and needs money to make it better off. The author makes an analogous argument to a homeowner who uses all their money to pay off a debt instead of reinvesting it in the farm.
The plan to use the budget surplus to pay down the national debt makes no sense.
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This is not the main conclusion of the argument. This is an analogy that lends support to the conclusion that the government leaders’ plan makes no sense.
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This is main point of the entire argument. It receives support from the following sentences and the analogy.
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While the author believes this, it is not the main conclusion of the argument. The author uses the homeowner as an analogy to support the conclusion that the plan does not make sense.
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This is a premise that supports the argument’s main conclusion. This cannot be a conclusion because it does not receive support anywhere else in the argument.
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The conclusion is not that the government wants to use the surplus to pay off the debt. The conclusion is that this plan does not make sense.
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