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Your Personal Experience with the Broken Window Fallacy

Your Personal Experience with the Broken Window Fallacy

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thetabularasa Posted: Wed, Oct 24 2012 3:09 PM

How have you personally experienced the negative effects or at least witnessed the negative effects of the Broken Window Fallacy?

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Oct 24 2012 4:05 PM

Given that we all pay taxes, I'd say yes.

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gotlucky replied on Wed, Oct 24 2012 4:53 PM

^^^^ Answers yes to an open ended question.

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Oct 24 2012 5:14 PM

I don't dally around cheeky

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Neodoxy replied on Wed, Oct 24 2012 11:07 PM

"How have you personally experienced the negative effects or at least witnessed the negative effects of the Broken Window Fallacy?"

Are you asking me if I can see... The unseen?

At last those coming came and they never looked back With blinding stars in their eyes but all they saw was black...
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thetabularasa replied on Thu, Oct 25 2012 7:04 AM

Neodoxy:

"How have you personally experienced the negative effects or at least witnessed the negative effects of the Broken Window Fallacy?"

Are you asking me if I can see... The unseen?

Nicely done!

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xahrx replied on Thu, Oct 25 2012 8:34 AM

How have you personally experienced the negative effects or at least witnessed the negative effects of the Broken Window Fallacy?

Only in as much as it raises my stress levels every time I hear some schmuck praise the economic stimulus effect of destruction.

"I was just in the bathroom getting ready to leave the house, if you must know, and a sudden wave of admiration for the cotton swab came over me." - Anonymous
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