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To: Hostage
House Lawmakers Propose 1,000 Percent Tax on AR-15s

A thousand dollar weapon will then cost a million.

Math is hard!

But this proposal will be quietly forgotten within a few hours (only to then be resurrected scores of times in the future).

Regards,

67 posted on 06/18/2022 11:35:44 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

I stand corrected. My poor eyes missed the ‘%’ symbol.

Years ago, I had a famous math professor who drew equations for 30 minutes on large roll down boards. At the end of the theoretical presentation, he wanted to show how the beautiful theory could be applied to a real world example.

So he plugged numerical values into variables and did the arithmetic. In his last line of arithmetic, he turned to the class of more than a hundred students and said “the answer is 5”, from which he had calculated and wrote 2 x 3 = 5.

When students pointed out the answer was 6 and not 5, he turned around to see what he’d written on the board and made a sour face saying”Drat! Cursed arithmetic!”

True story.


68 posted on 06/19/2022 1:53:02 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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