Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It by Evan Davis

Author:Evan Davis [Davis, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2017-05-11T00:00:00+00:00

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* The case of George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican Convention obviously comes to mind: ‘My opponent won’t rule out raising taxes, but I will, and the Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again, and I’ll say to them, “Read my lips: no new taxes.”’ President Bush consented to a budget that raised taxes in 1990, under pressure from Congress. He lost the subsequent election. The British Conservative government was similarly re-elected in 1992 after a campaign lambasting the opposition’s plans to raise taxes, but it went on to impose big tax rises of its own once in office. It too lost the next election, although other factors were involved.

* Hence Warren Buffett’s line, ‘It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.’

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