Andrew Colclough

Web Design & Dev., Liberty, Economics, Football

Here is a math problem for you:

Assume that the legislation establishing government control of medical care is passed and that it "brings down the cost of medical care." You pay $500 a year less for your medical care, but the new costs put on employers is passed on to consumers, so that you pay $300 a year more for groceries and $200 a year more for gasoline, while the new mandates put on insurance companies raise your premiums by $300 a year, how much money have you saved?

-Thomas Sowell

Math, like economic facts -> politically inconvenient.

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taxIncreaseOrNot.rb

Just to clarify:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU
#taxIncreaseOrNot.rb
question = "Is it a tax increase?"
currentTax = 5
bushTaxCut = -2

newTax = currentTax - bushTaxCut
taxChangeAmmount = newTax - currentTax

if newTax > currentTax
  taxChange = "increase"
  puts question
  puts "You will now pay $#{newTax}, which is a tax #{taxChange} of $#{taxChangeAmmount} from $#{currentTax}. What the tax was in the past is not information nessasary to answer the question."
else
  puts "Nancy is right. $#{newTax} is somehow not greater than $#{currentTax}. However, the laws of logic and mathematics are no longer in effect - so we're all totally screwed."
end

Which returns:

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