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In response to "ST Quiz: New study has ranked the 50 states" by Strongbad

study by whom? -- nm

Posted by moles (aka chris) Feb 24 '11, 10:36

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A quick Google search indicates it's the Tax Foundation. -- nm - mara Feb 24, 10:39
Here you go - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:37 22
- founded by "Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Chairman of GM; Donaldson Brown, GM Financial VP; William S. Farish, President of Standard Oil" - moles Feb 24, 10:40 21
  - How does that influence their study? - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:42 7
    - it's starting from a point of view that taxes are a "burden" for one -- nm - moles Feb 24, 10:43 6
      - you realize that you are allowed to just look at the data for what it is, without asserting an implied context. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 10:50 1
        
        Obviously he's not. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:51
      - How does that influence them to unfairly rate one state higher than another? -- nm - Ender Feb 24, 10:50 3
        
        Speaking at a theoretical level, a group looking for a specific outcome could set their study up with a subtle bias in order to shift or get the - ty97 Feb 24, 10:51 1
        
        Theoretically, I agree. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:52
        
        *ding* -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:50
  - "In 1989, Citizens for a Sound Economy, a conservative group founded and funded by the owners of Koch Industries, purchased the Tax Foundation" - moles Feb 24, 10:41 12
    - Let's turn this post into a Tea Party bashing session! Woohoo! - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:43 11
      - Okay! - znufrii Feb 24, 10:48
      - gosh if we could just live in the magical world of Ronald Reagan where nobody paid taxes for anything and there wasn't any government holding us back - moles Feb 24, 10:44 8
        
        *thread hijack alert* -- nm - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:46 7
        
        This sub-thread kinda went off the rails when you invoked the tea party bashing defense out of left field -- nm - ty97 Feb 24, 10:47 1
        
        (after Koch was brought into this) - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:49
        
        you were the one who conveniently omitted the source -- nm - moles Feb 24, 10:47 1
        
        F off. - Strongbad Feb 24, 10:48
        
        Red Alert! -- nm - William Riker Feb 24, 10:47 2
        
        you always knew when Riker called for a Red Alert that it was serious. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 24, 10:56 1
        
        Usually cause that pussy Picard couldn't stay on the Enterprise - amoxy Feb 24, 11:01
      - the poor, poor teabbaggers. everyone is picking on them. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 24, 10:44

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