Reply #26: Almost all of these are "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure" e-mails [View All]

The tax rates, for example, imply that you'll pay twice as much tax. Neither the Clinton nor Bush rates account for deductions. Families with kids will pay nowhere near those rates under either plan.

Some of the anti-immigration figures are, essentially, counted twice -- and the whole e-mail is predicated on the absurd proposition that the Iraq war is a great idea, and if those libs would just deport all the Mexicans and build the wall, we could easily afford it.

The "since 2006" e-mail cites one-thing-has-nothing-to-do-with-another events, and makes them appear causal. I could just as easily say "Since 2006, when the Democrats took control of congress, teerrorist attacks fell to nothing -- from the period that Bush took over to November 2006, almost 4,000 Americans died in terrorist attacks right here on our soil UNDER THE SLEEPING WATCH OF A CONGRESS THAT FAILED ITS 'CONTRACT WITH AMERICA!'