One of the strengths of litigation in our adversary system is that both law and reason require that any factual assertions you make have a basis in, well, fact.
Amazing how may political people don't grasp that. There is nothing wrong with acknowledging that you don't yet have the facts, or in stating your aspirations but...you gotta be ready:
-- [Fox News] CHRIS WALLACE, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's "Tex" McCrary Award for Journalism on Saturday at the U.S. Naval Academy, spoke to [FEMA Administrator Brock ] LONG on "FOX NEWS SUNDAY." WALLACE: "Simple, factual question: Do you dispute this number of 3,000 hurricane related deaths?"LONG: "Well, there are several different studies out there that are all over the place when it comes to death ... There's a lot of issues with numbers being all over the place. It's hard to tell what's accurate and what's not."
New England Journal of Medicine: Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
-- [CNN's Jake] TAPPER also had ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ on "State of the Union": TAPPER: "Your platform has called for various new programs, including Medicare for all, housing as a federal right, a federal jobs guarantee, tuition-free public college, canceling all student loan debt.
"According to nonpartisan and left-leaning studies friendly to your cause, including the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities or the Tax Policy Center, the overall price tag is more than $40 trillion in the next decade. You recently said in an interview that increasing taxes on the very wealthy, plus an increased corporate tax rate, would make $2 trillion over the next 10 years. So, where is the other $38 trillion going to come from?"
... MOMENTS LATER, after Ocasio-Cortez did not answer the question...TAPPER: "So, I'm assuming I'm not going to get an answer for the other $38 trillion. But we will have you back, and maybe we can go over that."
Tax Policy Center: Sanders and Trump have big dreams and no way to pay for them
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