Not to pile on, but everything hinges on whether Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez said that the study found M4A would save "the government $2 trillion." I've never seen Sanders or AOC make that claim. It's about overall costs.
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Replying to @ryangrim @MattBruenig and
Yeah, that's really a screaming factual error on Jake's part. What's worse is that it's the kind of error that would be hard to make if you're familiar with the basic facts of this issue.
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Jake's problem is that, as a Respectable Centrist, he takes it to be an a priori truth that the crazy leftists are obviously wrong. Thus, he doesn't feel the need to actually look too closely into the issue to see if they are, in fact, wrong.
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Replying to @jessespafford @schwarz and
Sure, the only person telling him that Bernie is wrong is this extremely biased source. But, that doesn't really matter because the left simply *must* be wrong. So, no need to look into the source's claims, as they are credible in virtue of the fact that they confirm his priors.
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Replying to @jessespafford @ryangrim and
The Mercatus guy is obviously being deceptive but what's weird is this particular glaring error doesn't seem to have originated with him. It appears far more likely that Jake & co. came up with it themselves — and they did so because they don't understand this issue at all.
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Replying to @schwarz @jessespafford and
That said, obviously Sanders and all his Crazee Hippie friends are Wrong and Crazee. I mean, it's right there in their name.
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Replying to @schwarz @jessespafford and
I don’t think this was Jake. It’s a partnership with http://factcheck.org and he (not unreasonably) trusted them to do an accurate fact check.
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Why are all the "fact check" websites so bad at even capturing what a fact is? It's mind-boggling.
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It’s deeply frustrating.
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Replying to @ryangrim @BenSpielberg and
Even if the error originated with http://factcheck.org , it's like going on air and saying, "Is Sanders right to claim that, immediately after 9/11, the US invaded Belize?" I feel like CNN anchors should know enough about politics to want to doublecheck that personally.
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