Consider the following three graphs which seem to tell different stories. You have to read carefully to see that they don’t directly contradict each other: Recently Annie Lowrey, blogging in the “debt Reckoning” section , posts the top graphic … Continue reading
This photo is being passed around on Facebook. Quick check Total Govt spend on Healthcare = $1.1 Trillion (National and Local) US Economy Spend on Healthcare (pdf) = $2.7 Trillion Govt. spend on Defense = $0.9 Trillion strictly rendered, the US spends 3X as … Continue reading
David Henderson has a little fun with an obviously false quote from an Illinois Congressman – “Nobody likes to pay taxes. Nobody wants to raise taxes on anybody.” Obviously somebody does. He also links this recent New York Times article which … Continue reading
False balance: There is a dispute about how important the video was in provoking the terrorist assault on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the United States ambassador and three other Americans. Militants interviewed at the scene … Continue reading
Is there nothing that low tax rates can’t do? Nick Kristof asserts that generators are caused by low tax rates, or some such nonsense. Others are on it, and it’s going to leave a mark: Kristof attributes the spread of … Continue reading