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Determine whether the following passage contains an argument. If so, write "argument"; if not, write "no argument." For the passages that contain arguments, analyze all arguments by bracketing and labeling the premises and conclusions in the passage, and diagram the arguments using circled numbers, direction arrows, and brackets. If the passage does not contain arguments, determine whether the passages contain explanations or descriptions.

For all passages, explain and justify your answer with reference to the meaning of the terms: argument, explanation, and description. Your justifications should be sufficiently detailed to prove or demonstrate that your identification of the passage is correct.

Many people oppose any tax on e-commerce . . . on the grounds that e-commerce is driving, and will continue to drive the national economic expansion; that it will increase tax revenues from computer hardware and telecommunications; and that it will create millions of additional jobs. This amounts to a claim that e-commerce, without being taxed directly will nevertheless augment federal tax revenues. Yet, it is clear that the less we tax electronic business the more we must tax something else if we are to maintain a given level of government spending. Some people plausibly interpret this to mean that imposing no new tax on Web commerce will add to the disadvantages of the poor, who have less access to the internet.