An indignant young thing on MSNBC was interviewing a congressman about eliminating the deduction for state/local taxes who said to the effect that states with low taxes were effectively subsidizing states with high taxes.She demanded proof of that. He replied it was Economics 101. She never did get it. Amazing!

You couldn't make this stuff up. MSNBC is certainly entertaining.


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.