Saturday, August 16, 2003

Gazillions of Trillions of Zillions Oh My

That evil New York Times displays its innumeracy, as pointed out by reader JM:

As Mr. Bush's "growth" program rolls out, the richest 1 percent of Americans can expect an estimated 17 percent cut in their taxes by 2010, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The other 99 percent get a 5 percent cut - along with accumulated deficits of $4 billion or more across the next 10 years and the lost chance that the now-vanished surplus might be used to protect their future Social Security benefits.


I figured all these problems would be gone once Rick Berke and Jeff Gerth and Jayson Blair had all been fired..

Oh never mind.