Legislator: My staff conducted a poll in which my constituents were asked whether they favor high taxes. More than 97 percent answered "no. " Clearly, then, my constituents would support the bill I recently introduced, which reduces the corporate income tax. The reasoning in the legislator's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
A: confuses an absence of evidence that the legislator's constituents oppose a bill with the existence of evidence that the legislator's constituents support that bill
B: treats a result that proves that the public supports a bill as a result that is merely consistent with public support for that bill
C: fails to establish that the opinions of the legislator's constituents are representative of the opinions of the country's population as a whole
D: fails to consider whether the legislator's constituents consider the current corporate income tax a high tax
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
D