You’ve neither addressed the counterargument to your ridiculous one, nor offered any evidence to support your beliefs about it. I think it’s safe to dismiss this hoary old chestnut, just as it’s been safe to do for decades. It’s not quite the brilliant gotcha you think it is.
How about this - I would suggest that all the meat industry executives who want to force people back to work, without liability or protective equipment, should lead by example and work on the meatpacking line for a few weeks and risk contracting COVID.
If enough of them do that, maybe some of us will consider following their lead voluntarily.
Does this sound reasonable to you? If leadership by example is good enough for the poor, surely it’s good enough for the rich.
Would it help if we told you the Latin name for this fallacy? Unfortunately I’ve forgotten the Latin name. Or maybe it doesn’t even have one; after all, the ancient Romans weren’t dumb enough to fall for your argument.
Let me try this: Suppose you are the Manager of the Chicago White Sox and you don’t like the Designated Hitter Rule — you wish the league would revert to the old rule where the pitcher bats for himself. Would you want to lead by example by sending your pitcher up to bat, even when the other teams are using DH’s?
Let’s see if you can answer that question. Then we can get back to you on your ridiculous proposal.
Since lower taxes necessitate lower spending (or at least, they should), I wonder if Sdowiat would like to lead by example and volunteer to receive a lower level of services from the government. Fire and police wait an extra five minutes before responding to calls, have to go to the end of the longest line for the security screening at the airport, no admission to national parks, lower Social Security benefits, etc.
C’mon, step up, show us how it’s done!
Deal. Send me enough money to put me in the top 1%, and I promise I’ll send in some extra $ each year.
*President Donald Trump falsely claims that Democrats propose “doubling, tripling, quadrupling your taxes” and that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s plan specifically would result in “doubling and tripling your taxes.”
Biden proposes to raise an additional $4 trillion in taxes over the next decade, but the increases would fall mainly on very high-income earners and corporations, and would not nearly double, let alone triple or quadruple, people’s taxes at any income level (on average), according to analyses of Biden’s plan by the Penn Wharton Budget Model, the Tax Policy Center and the Tax Foundation.*
Holy shit! Trump lied about this??
Maybe we should start a thread on this lie, to match the one on Biden’s lie about his grades or something.
How dare you accuse Great Leader of lying? If you’d read the other thread you’d know that you need a peer-reviewed journal article to confirm the statement(s) were false. Separate articles for each clause or phrase in Great Leader’s claim, please. (And none of those liberal urban electronic journals; we want real American print journals available in every library or church in the Heartland.)
For liberal claims, proof operates the opposite way of course. With only a photoshopped version of the “long form certificate” on view, I’m afraid we must still assume that the Obamas — and probably Biden as well — were born in Kenya.
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Seriously- To all of you who think that taxes SHOULD be raised: Why don't you lead by example and just go ahead and send in some extra $ each year? There's a place right there on the form to do that....
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Hi **Sdowiat** — There were several interesting responses to this suggestion. I do hope you take time from your busy schedule to answer some of these suggestions.