Drawing the Wrong Conclusion VI — big savings edition

Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:58 am, by

WRAL had a feel-good story this weekend entitled:

NC State students save big with tax-free online textbook orders

But upon reading the article, which was about students benefiting from the sales-tax holiday, one encounters this:

Larry Sampson, a senior applied mathematics student, said he saved $37 on a $553 textbook, for example.

Previous entries in “Drawing the Wrong Conclusion”: I, II, III, IV, and V.

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Jon Sanders (twitter.com/jonpsanders) is Director of Regulatory Studies at the John Locke Foundation. A columnist for TownHall.com, Sanders has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, ABC News online, FrontPage Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, the Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous newspapers throughout North Carolina. A native of Garner, N.C., Sanders has been an adjunct instructor in economics at North Carolina State University, and he holds a masters degree in economics with a minor in statistics and a bachelors degree in English literature and language from N.C. State.

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