Topic: Critical Reasoning Skills Tested: Argumentative Techniques, Evidence Interpretation, Strength of Reasoning, Logical Flaws and Assumptions, Elimination of Incorrect Options Question: In a certain country, the government maintains agricultural counseling offices to dispense free advice. Critics contend these offices should close, since they are a waste of public money. Office staff counter that the value to farmers of the advice given greatly exceeds the cost of maintaining those offices. The critics’ response is that it is precisely services generating such extra value that can, and therefore should, be rendered by private enterprise for profit. In their response, the critics of …