Which question might you ask in order to find out why the speaker thinks this is true?

[Anonymous]

Read the sentence from a speech.

In fact, all taxes are counterproductive.

Which question might you ask in order to find out why the speaker thinks this is true?


1) “Would you be in favor of abolishing all taxes?”
2) “On what do you base this conclusion?”
3) "Could you tell me more about the ill effects of taxes?”
4) “Did I understand you to say that taxation is a bad idea?”

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I'd go with the second or third questions; Albert Einstein once said that if you can't explain something to a child then you don't really understand it.