Economics 101
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madbakerQ: Identify the fallacy in this argument:
"Proposition [x] is not a tax increase. [If passed the measure will] issue $xx million in state bonds."
"Proposition [x] is not a tax increase. [If passed the measure will] issue $xx million in state bonds."
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Date: 2006-05-16 03:27 pm (UTC)"mug's game, a thankless task; a useless, foolish, or unprofitable activity. colloq.
1910 Belloc Pongo xv. 233 One cannot arrest millionaires with impunity... Even in a wild democracy to arrest them is Mug's game. 1918 Flying 12 June 427/2 Flying's a mug's game, mater, A fact I know full well. 1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 77, I am going out of politics. Politics is a mug's game."
It derives from "mug 1. a. A stupid or incompetent person, a 'muff', 'duffer'; a fool, simpleton; a card-sharper's dupe. slang."
I love having access to the OED.