Editorial: The premier’s economic advisor assures her that with the elimination of wasteful spending, the goal of reducing taxes while not significantly decreasing government services can be met. But the premier should not listen to this advisor, who in his youth was convicted of embezzlement. Surely his economic advice is as untrustworthy as he is himself, and so the premier should discard any hope of reducing taxes without a significant decrease in government services.

Which one of the following is a questionable argumentative strategy employed in the editorial’s argument?

rejecting a proposal on the grounds that a particular implementation of the proposal is likely to fail

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trying to win support for a proposal by playing on people’s fears of what could happen otherwise

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criticizing the source of a claim rather than examining the claim itself

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taking a lack of evidence for a claim as evidence undermining the claim

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presupposing what it sets out to establish

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Solution

The correct option is C criticizing the source of a claim rather than examining the claim itself
The editorial maintains that the premier should not trust the economic advisor based on the economic advisor's prior unseemliness. What the editorial does not do is address what is wrong with the economic advisor's plan (this is a classic ad hominem - or attack the man - fallacy). Only (C) captures this fallacy. C criticises the source of a claim rather than examining the claim itself.

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