| Squilliam said: You've proved correlation and not causation. |
Right, and I don't care about causation.
Wall-mart has this supper computer that just data mines a whole bunch of stuff. One thing they noticed, is when bad weather enters Florida, people buy a lot of strawberry pop tarts. They don't know why, and don't really care. They just know it happens. So, they monitor the weather, and when they see bad weather heading for Florida, they send them more strawberry pop tarts.
Observed data is far better then theory. We could talk until we are blue in the face about what we think raising taxes will do, but who cares? Neither of us would probably be right, because it's a very complex problem. But, I can tell you that raising taxes will not bring in more dollars, because I have the last 60 years worth of data points telling me it won't.
I don't care why it's true. I just care that it is. Raising taxes on the rich will not increase revenue. Anyone who looks at the data, can tell you this.
Passing a law that you expect to pay for by doing this, is to completely ignore what the last 60 years is telling you.
