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Directions: Read the following information and answer the question that follows.

The Chief Minister of Tikamgarh, responding to reports that many of his party men were calling for his removal, told reporters: “The faction behind this removal movement accuse me with alienating the public from the government. By raising taxes, they claim I have angered the public for leading anti-public policies. What they don’t realise, however, is that my purpose, as stated earlier, is to raise money to fund various statewide welfare programmes. They prefer to bully me out of the job for wanting to help improve lives of the people and ease our state’s economic woes.”

Which of the following best indicates the principal flaw in the Chief Minister’s argument?

  1. There is no guarantee that taxation would be effective in funding the welfare programme.

  2. The welfare activities carried by a statewide program would not be equivalent to the amount collected by means of new taxes.

  3. The party members of the Chief Minister want to remove him because of the effects, not the intent of his tax hike.

  4. The Chief Minister’s claim about the target of his tax hike is impossible to verify.

  5. None of these
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Explanation

The Chief Minister says that his party members shouldn’t blame him for causing alienation of public by raising taxes, thereby decreasing the party base in the state because he had meant these measures for the welfare of the public. The flaw in his reasoning is that his party men are basing their anger not on what the Chief Minister promised, but on what actually happened, which is the alienation of public.

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