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CRITICAL THINKING CLASS What is the author’s claim? Virginia Postrel author of the article “Let’s charge politicians for wasting our time” claims that politicians should pay a certain fee for pestering citizens/voters to turn out in large numbers and vote for their favorite aspirants. According to the author robocalls are annoying and waste people’s time without even paying a dime for in terms of the feasibility of her proposal. The fact that people dislike political robocalls implies that very few will answer to the calls. People rarely spend time listening to the political messages passed via robocalls since they already have their favourite candidate in mind. Moreover the electioneering period only last for a few days and everything goes back to normal. [...]

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CRITICAL THINKING CLASS - NEED Today 2/17 BY 9PM. Read “Let’s Charge Politicians for Wasting Our Time,” www.bloomberg.com Write answers to the following questions, one paragraph each: (ANSWER IN QUESTION FORMAT) 1. What is the author's claim? 2. What kind of support does she provide? 3. Does she provide enough support? 4. Does she provide evidence that her proposal would work? 5. Were someone to disagree with her, would the disagreement focus on the claim, the support the feasibility of her proposal or something else? HINTS: How to identify a claim? 1. What x or y should do 2. Followed by the reason that x or y should act 3. Effects of adopting proposal What does a proposal need? 1. Call for change, in response to a problem 2. Focus on Future 3. Center on Audience