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Showing posts with label Reasoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reasoning. Show all posts

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Michael Johnston: Palaeolithic walruses in the age of reason


Here are a couple of highlights from the leaders’ debate last Tuesday evening:

“That’s a good point, Christopher. Most economists do agree that selectively removing GST from fruit and vegetables is a dumb idea. We’d better rethink that one.”

“Well, Chris, you make a good point too. It looks as if the foreign-buyer tax won’t raise as much as we’d first thought.”

They didn’t say anything of the sort, of course.