question archive Each of the passages that follow contains an analogy
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Each of the passages that follow contains an analogy. First decide whether the analogy is being used as an argument. Then if it is, analyze and evaluate it.
"The mode of taxation is, in fact, quite as important as the amount. As a small burden badly placed may distress a horse that could carry with ease a much larger one properly adjusted, so a people may be impoverished and their power of producing wealth destroyed by taxation, which, if levied another way, could be borne with ease." [Henry George, Progress and Poverty]