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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Don't go away mad! We need people like you here to prove that having a lot of education doesn't mean you learned anything.
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Please be fair to the guy. He didn't claim to have "a lot of education"; he merely said that he has a "Stanford degree." It might be something like a B.A. in sociology. (I sort of suspect that if he has a Master's or Ph.D. in math, physics, or any of the engineering sciences, he would have boasted about it.)
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Originally Posted by Iaintliein
Exactly why the income tax needs to be replaced with a straight sales tax.
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In a perfect world, that's the sort of tax system we'd have. Of course, we would also have to roll back spending to the levels of many years ago, so it'll never happen. (Another reason it will never happen is, of course, that it would curtail the dispensation of political favors by congress.)
That's all what you guys got. A display of low education and nonsense? Really pittiful and boring. 
Freakonomics are fun but can't be taken seriously. Skewed statistics and distorted analogies make a light fun reading but need to be kept away from politics and real life.
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