Perfect Solution Fallacy: Difference between revisions
Fox News didn't want those programs cancelled to solve the national debt, they wanted them cancelled because they didn't like them. Which is opinionated, but not hypocritical.
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* A recent episode of [[The Daily Show]] lampooned a group of Fox News personalities who claimed that a proposed tax increase on the super-rich was worthless in eliminating the federal debt because it would generate "only" an additional $700 billion over 10 years, a small fraction of the overall debt. (Stewart and Co. then went on to show that raising taxes on the lowest-earning 50% of the population could only generate the same amount by claiming HALF of all of their material wealth in taxes.)
** Which means the Daily Show's argument is an example of [[False Dichotomy]] as the usual counter position is ''cutting spending'' not ''raising taxes on the other half.''
* This comes up all the time in politics, usually in the form of refusing to support certain candidates or laws because they don't completely solve our problems. It's a major cause of [[We ARE Struggling Together!]], as factions push for their perfect solutions.
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