Re: Innumeracy at the NY Times

[SSHS KPHOX <kphox@CHERRYCREEKSCHOOLS.ORG>]

Forum for Physics Educators <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu> writes:
> The last paragraph of an editorial that appears in this morning's NY
> Times:
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/16/opinion/16SAT3.html>
>
> "As Mr. Bush's "growth" program rolls out, the richest 1 percent of
> Americans can expect an estimated 17 percent cut in their taxes by
> 2010, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The
> other 99 percent get a 5 percent cut - along with accumulated
> deficits of $4 billion or more across the next 10 years and the lost
> chance that the now-vanished surplus might be used to protect their
> future Social Security benefits."
>
> Incredible.

I must be brain dead from a summer off. The politics is incredible but I
don't see the innumeracy hitting me between the eyes.

Ken Fox