Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jul 1, 2012 19:00:44 GMT 10
Wayne Swan posts a pair of shopping dockets, declaring:
"Shock, horror - no price rise at all! Check out the receipts. Cost $36.30 yesterday $36.10 today"
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If you go through the docket, you see that he has in fact bought a selection of things yesterday and today (those who want to suggest that they're cherry-picked first need to consider That He Chose Them Yesterday). None of those things went up in price.
Andrew declares AH-HA!!1!
Wow. In fact, by Swan’s kind of reckoning, the carbon tax actually cut the shopping bill by 20 cents. All that compensation for nothing.
But wait. It turns out Swan is not only pretending that the critics thought grocery prices would jump overnight. He is also not comparing oranges with (fewer) oranges.
No, Andrew. No he's not. He's saying (and this is a direct quote):
Shock, horror - no price rise at all
See? No. Price. Rise. YOU'RE the one who's taken issue with the fact that he hasn't bought exactly the same number of oranges. HIS point is that the price (i.e. per unit of orange) has not changed. It's very simple.
The items on the dockets were scanned in a different order too. IS there anything we can read into that? Maybe yet another example of this government's totalitarian avoidance of scrutiny?
"Shock, horror - no price rise at all! Check out the receipts. Cost $36.30 yesterday $36.10 today"
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If you go through the docket, you see that he has in fact bought a selection of things yesterday and today (those who want to suggest that they're cherry-picked first need to consider That He Chose Them Yesterday). None of those things went up in price.
Andrew declares AH-HA!!1!
Wow. In fact, by Swan’s kind of reckoning, the carbon tax actually cut the shopping bill by 20 cents. All that compensation for nothing.
But wait. It turns out Swan is not only pretending that the critics thought grocery prices would jump overnight. He is also not comparing oranges with (fewer) oranges.
No, Andrew. No he's not. He's saying (and this is a direct quote):
Shock, horror - no price rise at all
See? No. Price. Rise. YOU'RE the one who's taken issue with the fact that he hasn't bought exactly the same number of oranges. HIS point is that the price (i.e. per unit of orange) has not changed. It's very simple.
The items on the dockets were scanned in a different order too. IS there anything we can read into that? Maybe yet another example of this government's totalitarian avoidance of scrutiny?
