[Your Nightmare]

Arithmetic is a very simple subset - a branch, if you will - of mathematics my friend.

You said "Oh, and it's not mathematics ... it's arithmetic." By you own admission, arithmetic is a subset of mathematics. It is impossible for something to be arithmetic and "not mathematics."

If you like misusing the word it's fine with me

Who misused a word? The only one who's said anything wrong is you.

since your word usage has been known to be (shall we say) "peculiar".

This is where I ask you to show an example of where my "word usage" was "peculiar" and you fail to provide it. This is getting to be a pretty pathetic tactic from the Fanboys.

You SQL guys don't seem to grasp arithmetic and therefore CERTAINLY don't grasp mathematics either.

LOL! But it's not mathematics, it's arithmetic!

Classic.

[Principled]

Arithmetic is a part of mathematics. So it is obvious to all that you are merely trying again to keep the topic away from tax reform - which you abhor.

The FairTax proposal is a comprehensive plan to replace federal income and payroll taxes, including personal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security/Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes. The FairTax proposal integrates such features as a progressive national retail sales tax, dollar-for-dollar revenue replacement, and a rebate to ensure that no American pays such federal taxes up to the poverty level. Included in the FairTax plan is the repeal of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.

[Principled]

This is where I ask you to show an example of where my "word usage" was "peculiar" and you fail to provide it.

He did show an example. Seven examples have been shown on this thread alone.

This is just one more attempt to keep folks from discussing tax reform - which you reject in any form. SQL is indeed an accurate moniker for you.

Most importantly, the FairTax does not burden U.S. exports as they are with the current income tax. So the FairTax allows U.S. exports to sell overseas for prices 22 percent lower, on average, than they do now, with similar profit margins. Lower prices sharply increase demand for U.S. exports, thereby increasing job creation in U.S.manufacturing sectors. At home, imports are subject to the same FairTax rate as domestically produced goods. Not only does the FairTax put U.S. products sold here on the same tax footing as foreign imports, but the dramatic lowering of compliance costs in comparison to other countries' value-added taxes also gives U.S. products a definitive pricing advantage which foreign tax systems cannot match.

[pigdog]

From your #276 Nightie -

"Knucklehead, arithmetic is mathematics."

As I said in a post a bit later arithmetic is not mathematics ... it is a subset of mathematics and not mathematics which is a far more inclusive and esoteric discipline dealing more with theory and abstractions while arithmetic, typically, deals with real numbers and their manipulation by My Dear Aunt Sally (Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction).

Your statement in #276 that arithmetic IS mathematics is incorrect ... had you said arithmetic is part of (or a subset of or a branch of or perhaps - as a stretch - even makes use of) mathematics that would have been correct. As it is you have used a specific low level speciality (arithmetic) by trying to define it to be a much higher-level speciality (mathematics) - which it is not.

That qualifies as misuse of the word despite your intended slurs.

YOU MISUSED THE WORD!!!