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Why can't these kind of advocacy websites bring themselves to talk about the downsides of their proposed plans? Nothing is perfect, and pretending that your pr
by joosters 12y ago
Why can't these kind of advocacy websites bring themselves to talk about the downsides of their proposed plans?
Nothing is perfect, and pretending that your proposal is simply flawless makes you look like a fool. Having the honesty to talk about weaknesses and drawbacks is what any sensible research should do (and not just so that they can hand-wave them away).
If you can't deign to admit you and your ideas are not perfect, your campaign website makes you look narrow-minded and foolish.
- notahacker 12y agoIn fairness, they do have a more detailed report which considers some of the downsides (they acknowledge putting VAT up puts some jobs at risk) as well as makes it clear their proposals are quite moderate (there's an income tax cut, but still a substantial income tax) and that they haven't done any macroeconomic modelling. It's also relatively easy to pick loopholes in, but at least it actually gives some of the specifics the pretty graphics and "tax some metals" of the rest of the website sorely lacks. http://ex-tax.com/files/4314/1693/7138/The_Extax_Project_New_Era_New_Plan_report.pdf http://ex-tax.com/files/4314/1693/7138/The_Extax_Project_New...
- joosters 12y agoThanks for the link - I had only discovered the white paper. IMO they should still have these things in there...