Rent Control Argument Analysis

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The argument above stated that the elimination of rent control is not a problem because the majority of renters didn't protest for the regulation. This argument relies on several unsupported assumptions and therefor fails to be persuasive. Firstly, the argument about the elimination of rent control regulation is rooted in the assumption that renters who did not protest is much larger and represent the opinion regarding the regulation. However, the author provides no evidence that can support this key assumption. Without specific statistics regarding the number of people who agree and disagree about such a regulation, we simply can not assume that one outweighs the other: all renters who did not protest because they agree the regulation, or

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