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Originally Posted by badnarik
They are questioning his ideas, not his facts, and that's all I'm saying. Why is a fact checking site making predictions?
I agree the gas tax holiday is nothing more than pandering. Again, I wasn't expecting a lesson in economics from a fact-checking site.
Price cuts would spur greater demand for gasoline, but because the summer gas supply is already fixed, consumers would end up bidding gas back up to its old price.
C'mon it looks like a third grader wrote that.
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When a candidate proposes three major tax reforms (eliminating the Alternative-Minimum tax, extending the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers including those earning over $200,000 and raising the estate tax exemption) then I think estimating the total cost is fair game for a fact-checking site. One problem voters have is that candidates throw around spending and tax cut proposals and never really go into the nitty-gritty of what it will cost. They've done this by consulting a range of sources, and have come up with an educated guess, which is just about the best anybody can do.
I guess I'm not sure what the problem is. It sounds like you're annoyed by the economic analysis of the gas tax holiday, even if you actually agree with what they say about it--so confound it all, I just don't know what it is about this that has such a bur in your saddle.
As for your critique of the article's writing style--well, opinions on that sort of thing differ. At best it's a red herring, though.