[maica]

RE your post about the percent increase in whatever you were referencing —

One of the big failures of modern education, (besides the left wing indoctrination) is the lack of knowledge of percentages. It really is abysmal how little people know about it, and one of the reasons why politicians can spin so much.

1 added to 1 is a 100% increase. (Headline: “AIDS cases doubled among women” — when the number went from 2 per hundred to 4 per hundred — but the headline is a scare tactic.)

When our governor wanted to raise the sales tax from 5% to 6%, everyone who agreed with him, [see WaPo,etc] called it a one percent increase. In real money, it was a 20% increase.

[Gondring]

To be fair, it was FFranco who gets credit for fixing the math and terminology (that a "Percent" change is not the same as "Percentage Point" change). I just responded when SoldierDad stuck to using LeftieMath^TM and referred to the FFranco's as New Math."

But the increase from "5% to 6% percent increase is only 1%" game is only part of the liberal lies bag o' tricks in counting on peoples' ignorance when it comes to percentages. They also say, "we've had the same taxes for years, and things are more expensive now...we have to raise the rate just to keep pace!" and people fall for it.