[merrillbender]

75 Economists was the line. Open Letter in support of the Fair Tax. That is significant.

The rest of us here are just armchair econoimists at best.

I certainly see no credential here that rise to that level for those opposed.

I am sorry maybe 2 or 3 economists but not 75.
(Gale, Bartlett rebutted at rebuttal section of www.fairtax.org)

[Your Nightmare]

75 Economists was the line. Open Letter in support of the Fair Tax. That is significant.

Sorry, getting 75 economists out of the thousands in the U.S. to sign a letter is not very impressive. Your buddy Jorgenson once got over 2,500 economists to sign a letter "that global climate change carries with it significant environmental, economic, social, and geopolitical risks, and that preventive steps are justified." Does that make it true?

The point is, you can get a certain number of people to sign anything and 75 is a pretty small number.