When debating, I usually use arguments from morallity instead of from effect.
Because of this, I don't usually have to worry about vetting info, just logic, but I found a fact that's too good to pass up.
I was thinking about how everything I see referencing tax rates always focus on income tax, ignoring all the sales, property, sin, and sundry other taxes. Being curious, I did some googling.
I found this http://goo.gl/fIUPtS which claims total tax rate is just shy of 60%
If you add other things government does to increase prices, reduce competition, and decrease the value of money, like regulatory burden http://goo.gl/5sQiFy ($1.75 trillion and rising), inflation, barriers to market entry, etc. etc., well, this argument from effect is looking like a good one, and that's before adding in the fact that a big chunk of what they're buying is warheads to drop on wedding parties, leading to blowback making us all less safe.
Of course, if I'm going to make an argument that depends on a statistic, it'd be important to know if that statistic is true or not.
Does anyone else here have methods they use to vett info?
When debating, I usually use arguments from morallity instead of from effect.
Because of this, I don't usually have to worry about vetting info, just logic, but I found a fact that's too good to pass up.
I was thinking about how everything I see referencing tax rates always focus on income tax, ignoring all the sales, property, sin, and sundry other taxes. Being curious, I did some googling.
I found this http://goo.gl/fIUPtS which claims total tax rate is just shy of 60%
If you add other things government does to increase prices, reduce competition, and decrease the value of money, like regulatory burden http://goo.gl/5sQiFy ($1.75 trillion and rising), inflation, barriers to market entry, etc. etc., well, this argument from effect is looking like a good one, and that's before adding in the fact that a big chunk of what they're buying is warheads to drop on wedding parties, leading to blowback making us all less safe.
Of course, if I'm going to make an argument that depends on a statistic, it'd be important to know if that statistic is true or not.
Does anyone else here have methods they use to vett info?