re: #339 Aceofwhat?

re: #328 blueraven

re: #324 jamesfirecat

wait. someone says “higher taxes don’t affect X” and i reply with a simple “what happens if we turn the knob up to 10” and it’s a strawman?

no. just a simple point - at some level, high taxes stifle things. the question is at which level, not whether the phenomenon exists.

this ‘strawman’ - idonotthinkitmeanswhatyouthinkitmeans.

A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position.[1] To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the “straw man”), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.