"If we allow the administration to lower taxes this year, soon they will be reducing taxes more and more every year, and before we know it the authorities will have no money to spend on police and fire departments." This is an example of a(n) _______ fallacy.
A) ad hominem
B) reductio ad absurdum
C) either-or
D) argumentum ad verecundiam

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This statement is an example of a reductio ad absurdum fallacy because it takes the argument to an extreme conclusion in order to ridicule or refute the initial proposition about lowering taxes.

"If We Allow the Administration to Lower Taxes This Year