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 ["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", 'treats a result that proves that the public supports a bill as a result that is merely consistent with public support for that bill', "fails to establish that the opinions of the legislator's constituents are representative of the opinions of the country's population as a whole", "fails to consider whether the legislator's constituents consider the current corporate income tax a high tax"]