Comments on: 100% of People With No Mortgage Payment Rate their Mortgage Payment as “Fair” http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: passerby http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10727 passerby Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:19:48 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html#comment-10727 <p>"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch, liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote" usually attributed to Ben Franklin, I believe.<br /> </p> “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch, liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote” usually attributed to Ben Franklin, I believe.

]]> By: JaylieWoW http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10726 JaylieWoW Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:06:55 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html#comment-10726 <p>@Sir Rupert Studwell:</p> <p>Yes, but in a true REPUBLIC the wolves are sitting down with a well armed sheep!</p> @Sir Rupert Studwell:

Yes, but in a true REPUBLIC the wolves are sitting down with a well armed sheep!

]]> By: JaylieWoW http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10725 JaylieWoW Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:05:06 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html#comment-10725 <p>@Sir Rupert Studwell:</p> <p>Yes, but in a true REPUBLIC the wolves are sitting down with a well armed sheep!</p> @Sir Rupert Studwell:

Yes, but in a true REPUBLIC the wolves are sitting down with a well armed sheep!

]]> By: DKH http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10724 DKH Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:49:12 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html#comment-10724 <p>I don't think the author's point was that the same 60% of people receive government benefits in excess of taxes _and_ think that the tax system is fair.</p> <p>What I take from this is that not all people in the Gallup poll are equivalent. Some of them net paid to the government; some net received. Both groups' feelings are combined to get the 60%, but we don't know the conditional probabilities (that is, given that someone net pays to the government, do they regard the income tax they pay as fair?).</p> I don’t think the author’s point was that the same 60% of people receive government benefits in excess of taxes _and_ think that the tax system is fair.

What I take from this is that not all people in the Gallup poll are equivalent. Some of them net paid to the government; some net received. Both groups’ feelings are combined to get the 60%, but we don’t know the conditional probabilities (that is, given that someone net pays to the government, do they regard the income tax they pay as fair?).

]]> By: JoshK http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10723 JoshK Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:52:08 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html#comment-10723 <p>What's that line about democracy being more than "two wolves and a sheep sitting down and voting on what's for dinner"?</p> What’s that line about democracy being more than “two wolves and a sheep sitting down and voting on what’s for dinner”?

]]> By: Sir Rupert Studwell http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10722 Sir Rupert Studwell Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:40:40 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html#comment-10722 <p>bottom 60% of households != 60% of people. Still, its always worth pointing out just how progressive US effective tax rates are. It's always tiring when you see these lefty types demonstrating the alleged regressiveness of the bush tax cuts by observing that those on higher incomes got more in absolute terms than those lower down the income scale. They really have no shame. </p> bottom 60% of households != 60% of people. Still, its always worth pointing out just how progressive US effective tax rates are. It’s always tiring when you see these lefty types demonstrating the alleged regressiveness of the bush tax cuts by observing that those on higher incomes got more in absolute terms than those lower down the income scale. They really have no shame.

]]> By: franco http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10721 franco Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:26:52 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html#comment-10721 <p>I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that they're not the Top 20% of wage earners.</p> I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that they’re not the Top 20% of wage earners.

]]> By: noahpoah http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10720 noahpoah Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:56:08 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/04/100-of-people-w.html#comment-10720 <p>I get the point you're trying to make, but surely you know that you haven't established that these are the same 60%.</p> I get the point you’re trying to make, but surely you know that you haven’t established that these are the same 60%.

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