Average
One of my favourite George Carlin one-liners is ‘Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that’.
So take a look at this from the Prime Minister:
The Chancellor said in his letter that the Government will examine in that review all practical propositions, with the focus on potential changes to the tax credit system to allow the average losses from the removal of the 10p starting rate of income tax to be offset.
Average losses. Think of the offset of the average loss, and realise half of them will be lower than that. This ‘u-turn’ isn’t a compromise. It isn’t a fudge. It’s deceit.
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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It was the same with student tuition fees. Labour would declare that “the average graduate” earned x thousand pounds a year, happily ignoring those earning significantly less than that.
Wills last blog post..Boris’s 60-second U-turn
Our Tone also said that Labour wouldn’t introduce tuition fees, then when they did after they got elected again and was challenged, said they meant just in the previous term.
Sim-O’s latest blog post… Gagged
[pedant] Though of course that’s the median, not the average. [/pedant]