At 22:17 12/09/2016 +0100, Dr L Brownstein wrote:
>When you know how government funding works, and know that it has an
>unlimited pot of money at its disposal, then for said government to say
>that it can't fund X because it has not got the money, this must be
>interpreted as being delusional or a lie because the statement is
>empirically false.
I think this discussion probably needs to be taken off-list before everyone
gets very tired of it (it may be 'radical', but it has got precious little
do with statsitics but, as far as I can see, a lot to do with politics) but
I really can't make sense of that statement.
If it really were true that government had an unlimited pot of money at
it's disposal, regardless of taxation etc., then it would surely throw vast
amounts of money not only to fund X, but also to fund Y, Z etc. (say the
NHS, 'benefits' and 'job generation' for a start) - and would thereby
probably be re-elected for evermore!
Kind Regards,
John
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