Regret the Error » the economist http://www.regrettheerror.com Mistakes Happen Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:25:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The shoe doesn’t fit http://www.regrettheerror.com/2009/12/11/the-shoe-doesnt-fit/ http://www.regrettheerror.com/2009/12/11/the-shoe-doesnt-fit/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:00:07 +0000 Craig Silverman http://www.regrettheerror.com/?p=9717 economistWe described Lee Daniels’s new film, “Precious”, (“Escaping from hell”, November 21st) as a shoe-in for the Academy Awards. As any horse-racing fan will know, it should have been—and will be—a “shoo-in”. Also, William Trevor’s “Love and Summer” (December 5th) is a novel and not a collection. Link

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]]> http://www.regrettheerror.com/2009/01/30/fuzzy-numbers-etc-198/feed/ 0 “There are plenty of good reasons to oppose this plan, but none to misrepresent it.” http://www.regrettheerror.com/2007/12/10/there-are-plenty-of-good-reasons-to-oppose-this-plan-but-none-to-misrepresent-it/ http://www.regrettheerror.com/2007/12/10/there-are-plenty-of-good-reasons-to-oppose-this-plan-but-none-to-misrepresent-it/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:00:21 +0000 Craig Silverman http://www.regrettheerror.com/magazines/there-are-plenty-of-good-reasons-to-oppose-this-plan-but-none-to-misrepresent-it Embarrassingly, we have now failed twice to describe accurately the Fair Tax plan endorsed by Mike Huckabee. This would abolish all federal income and payroll-based taxes and replace them with a national sales tax of 23%. To ease the pain of higher prices, all Americans, even Bill Gates, would receive an annual “prebate” determined only by their family size (not by their income, as we suggested). The size of the prebate would be set so as to ensure that a family at the poverty level which spent all its income would end up paying no net federal tax at all. There are plenty of good reasons to oppose this plan, but none to misrepresent it. Our apologies. Link

Previous correction here.

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