I'm not who you're responding to, but I tend not to assume competence on the part of academic economists. I've listened to enough of them speak and read enough

I'm not who you're responding to, but I tend not to assume competence on the part of academic economists. I've listened to enough of them speak and read enough of their proposals/think tank papers/books to know that a sizable portion of them are perfectly happy making some absurd assumptions and running down a logical chain from there without addressing the obvious points.