Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid
dx1@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt is factually incorrect. It is not giving them money, it is taking less money from them.
Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid
dx1@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt is factually incorrect. It is not giving them money, it is taking less money from them.
franklin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No it is not, you need to understand the difference between intended meaning, neither is incorrect, they just have different goals, it’s like the 10,000 definitions we have for the economy, there is an economists definitions and layman. Neither is implicitly wrong because they are all accepted meanings, especially when using the imperfect which in this context people often are.
dx1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not laymen, it’s a journalist.
franklin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No it’s their job to accurately communicate the effects to their readers, which they did.