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founded by "Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Chairman of GM; Donaldson Brown, GM Financial VP; William S. Farish, President of Standard Oil"

Posted by moles (aka chris) Feb 24 '11, 10:40

gosh, i wonder how they're gonna feel about taxes. probably won't like them one little bit!

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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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