{"id":3435,"date":"2012-02-22T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2012-02-22T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T22:44:08","slug":"he-should-just-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3435","title":{"rendered":"He should just shut up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, is the latest in a line of Repubicans to offer the following fallacious argument on tax increases.  Speaking of Warren Buffett, tax-increase supporter, he argues<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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MORGAN: You know where I’m going at with that. Warren Buffett keeps screaming to be taxed more.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: Yeah, well he should just write a check and shut up<\/strong>. Really. And just contribute. The fact of the matter is that I’m tired of hearing about it. If he wants to give the government more money, he’s got the ability to write a check<\/strong>. Go ahead and write it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The natural implication is that Buffett's argument is crap, as he isn't just going to write a check to the Treasury.  So Buffett is a hypocrite.<\/p>\n

This implication is just garbage, however.  Buffett's argument is that everyone of income bracket x ought to pay a higher tax rate.  His failure voluntarily to do so is not relevant to the claim that everyone ought to.<\/p>\n

I'm afraid to look, but I bet this one is making the rounds through the guts of the internet like so much cryptosporidium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, is the latest in a line of Repubicans to offer the following fallacious argument on tax increases.  Speaking of Warren Buffett, tax-increase supporter, he argues: MORGAN: You know where I’m going at with that. Warren Buffett keeps screaming to be taxed more. CHRISTIE: Yeah, well he should just write … Continue reading He should just shut up<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[1317,365,910,1318],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-quoque","category-general","tag-chris-christie","tag-fallacious-arguments","tag-tu-quoque-arguments","tag-warren-buffett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}