Day: April 14, 2010
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How to Lie with the Truth — and how to counter it
A meme spreading like wildfire throughout the rabid right is that “47% of Americans don’t even pay federal income tax.” Clearly it’s time for another tax cut for the uber-wealthy in the interest of “fairness”. David Leonhardt wrote a piece in today’s New York Times exploring this. Short version: The number is true… and meaningless. …