Evaluate the Following Argument in Accordance with the Criteria Discussed

Essay

Evaluate the following argument in accordance with the criteria discussed in the text.
"Four years ago, nonfat milk sold for 95 cents per half gallon. Today I paid $1.45 per half gallon at one of our low-priced supermarkets. That's a 52 percent increase in just four years for an average of 13 percent per year, while the official government inflation rate is less than 3 percent. Why is this? It's not a coincidence that four years ago we got our first Republican governor in this state in a long time."
-From a newspaper call-in column