{"id":215,"date":"2022-11-29T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/news\/?p=215"},"modified":"2023-05-21T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T16:17:59","slug":"math-doesnt-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/math-doesnt-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Doesn\u2019t Lie\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We use only U.S. Gov\u2019t Census Data. Which means it must be true.&nbsp; \u201cFor heaven\u2019s sake, gentlemen, at least respect arithmetic.\u201d<sup><a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>&nbsp;<\/sup> We tend to think that additional spending by a unit of government adds something that was not there before, when really it just reallocates it.&nbsp; We do the arithmetic and let you compare it between government zones by property addresses anywhere in the United States.&nbsp; \u201cWhat a lot of trouble to prove in political economy that two and two make four; and if you succeed in doing so, people cry, \u2018It is so clear that it is boring.\u2019&nbsp; Then they vote as if you had never proved anything at all.\u201d<a id=\"_ftnref2\" href=\"#_ftn2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizing metaphor of Spending Pressure drawn from the medical world of Blood Pressure is \u201can important shift\u201d in what economists call \u201cthe organizing metaphors of\u2026 economic models.\u201d<a id=\"_ftnref3\" href=\"#_ftn3\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The implication of your ability to calculate your own residential spending pressure, and to compare it to an alternative address opens to you a previously \u201ccomplicated and possibly unquantifiable aspect\u201d of your society and personal economy.<a id=\"_ftnref4\" href=\"#_ftn4\"><sup>[4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So check it out.&nbsp; Run the numbers for your address.&nbsp; Math doesn\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Frederic Bastiat, <em>What is Seen and What is Not Seen, <\/em>Sec. 3 \u201cTaxes\u201d (1850).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Id.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" id=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> Bier and Schinkel, Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2 (2016), 266-293, at 285.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" id=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> Id.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use only U.S. Gov\u2019t Census Data. Which means it must be true.&nbsp; \u201cFor heaven\u2019s sake, gentlemen, at least respect arithmetic.\u201d[1]&nbsp; We tend to think that additional spending by a unit of government adds something that was not there before, when really it just reallocates it.&nbsp; We do the arithmetic and let you compare it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendingpressure.com\/learn-more\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}