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Originally Posted by Regorium
Fraser Institute is misleading but not untruthful.
Especially regarding articles on taxation, they will add in loosely calculated numbers and horrible assumptions like how everyone has to pay corporate tax (due to corporate tax being passed down to consumers), and how the negative effects on the economy of carbon tax is actually like 28% increased tax. Leading to an article headline of us paying 120% in tax and how we need a Conservative government.
It's just really marginal methodology, but it is transparent if you're willing to dig in. It takes significant time to work through their assumptions and figure out what they're trying to say, but it's not completely false.
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I think this really captures why it isn't useful, particularly their info graphics and pull quotes that get shared around. The facts themselves may be true, but they way they are presented can be extremely distorted, and the only way to get to the bottom of it is to go back to their sources, and sort out what assumptions they used to get to their conclusions. And I don't find that useful, because virtually no one is willing(or should need to) do that.
So why get your information filtered through spin? Easier to discredit it mentally and not bother with the stuff no one else does, either.