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...find myself in exactly the same situation, as if I am watching one of those optical illusions that consists of a vase, depending on the Organizational whimsy of one's brain. Stokes continues: "But I am sure of this: One of these books --McNamara's -- is pervaded by a bias that fatally cripples its argument...
This is a rather strange assertion to make, especially after he has admitted that both of these books paint rather murky pictures of the story. Why does he resort to accusing one of the authors of bias, even as he is unconvinced by the other author's argument? After all, the Chafetz book is not without its own likely bias; in his preface, Morris Chafetz notes that he was (like Bean-Bayog) a member of the Harvard Medical School department of psychiatry and (like Bean-Bayog) a specialist on alcohol abuse and alcoholism...
...Harvard-educated Sedgwick has also been accused of bias because of his alma mater...
Savings and capital formation are the keys to economic growth, and compared to other industrialized nations, the US savings and investment rates are abnormally low. Our current tax system's anti-savings bias is a major cause of this. Our low savings rate inhibits economic growth and future productivity...
Replacing current taxes with a VAT would remove the bias towards consumption, and thus cause savings to increase. This, in turn, would result in the creation of more jobs and an increase in economic growth...