It shouldn't be this difficult to find it ...

Jul 04, 2020 14:09

I cannot find the Biden tax plan on the Biden campaign website. I cannot find it anywhere.

I was going to write a comprehensive post about it, but I cannot find it. I can find many articles that analyze the tax plan, that say what is in the tax plan, but I cannot find the plan. Articles refer to the plan, "Biden released a plan," but I cannot find it.

Y'all know I like to go to the original source when I write about stuff, but I cannot find it.

OK, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but the only way this can happen is: when the campaign released the plan to the media, the campaign required that the plan itself remain unpublished -- the plan was provided as "background". The document probably has some sort of disclaimer on the front page about the terms under which it can be used. There is also no "author" of the plan. No "spokesperson" for the plan.

The media can describe what's in the plan, but you cannot see the plan for yourself. Neither can I. Which is the point of this post. I cannot find the plan.

The Biden tax plan is treated like a trade secret. Like the formula for Coca Cola. We know what Coca Cola tastes like, we can describe it, we can count how many bottles of Coca Cola are on the shelf, but we cannot see the formula.

AKA "hiding the ball"

sigh

spin, econ

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