The End of Welfare as We Don't Know It

[William S. Lear]

On Mon, October 12, 1998 at 19:21:25 (-0700) Brad De Long writes:
>...
>I'm not making an assertion, I'm giving you a warning:
>
>Look. I got burned using them twice--and then had to apologize to the guys
>I had been debating, who now think I'm an idiot.
>
>Then I realized that they were the kind of people who would--out of the
>four years that Bush was President--choose to tell their readers about the
>year in which (a) their income was high because of royalties from _Millie's
>Book_, but (b) their taxes were more-or-less normal because they'd given
>the royalties away (and hence taken a deduction) *because* that year showed
>a much lower tax rate for the rich Bushes than the surrounding years.
>
>WARNING: if you use them as a source of information without checking their
>assertions, then you run a substantial risk of humiliating yourself...

I'm not so concerned as you that they would pick a "good" year for the
Bushes, but I am concerned if they do shoddy work, especially since I
have recommended their work to others.  Could you please share a few
concrete examples of their unreliability?

Bill