Dragon
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- Sep 16, 2011
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Hmmmmmmm........A "non-factual hypothetical?!?!?!?" As opposed to a "factual hypothetical?" Might I suggest you look up the definition of the word "hypothetical"?
I know what a hypothetical is, thank you very much.
A hypothetical should include all relevant facts if it is to be useful. The facts do not need to be perfectly correct, e.g. you did not have to have the real numbers for tax rates or regulation costs in order to argue that an impact on business performance exists. But your hypothetical example did need to avoid distorting the reality qualitatively and not just quantitatively, and by presenting taxes and regulations as if they operated in isolation that is what you have done.
One can always make shit up, but if that's all you're doing you're really not saying anything.