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The mayor of a small city sent the following memo to the city council:
The city needs to encourage people to recycle waste.
When people are offered financial rewards for a specific action,
they readily perform such action.
Therefore, the city should offer tax breaks to people who fully obey recycling laws.

Discuss how logically convincing you find this argument.
In explaining your point of view, be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and
the use of evidence in the argument. Also, discuss what, if anything,
would make the argument more sound and persuasive or would help you to better
evaluate its conclusion.

The city should offer tax breaks to people who fully obey recycling law.
1.The city needs to encourage people to recycle waste.
2.When people are offered financial rewards for a specific action, they readily perform such action.

Assumption

Tax incentive are enough of a reward to convince the city's citizens to recycle.

The argument assumes that tax incentives are enough of a reward to convince the city's citizens to recycle.

The mayor of the city assumes that tax incentives will encourage citizens to recycle.
For shaping economic behavior related to major investments such as buying a house,
tax breaks can be effective.
Recycling, however, is a small, daily task.
Tax breaks are delayed gratifiction,
too abstract and distant in time to influence such small, everyday decisions.
Therefore, it is doubtful that these tax incentives will have their intended effect.


gratification:n. 満足（させること，もの）; 喜び; 〔古〕 報酬.