Let's speech "MAGA math."
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In lawsuit you didn't know, Trump has been bragging astir lowering medicine cause prices by mathematically intolerable margins for a portion now.
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Remember this one? "Because I person invoked FAVORED NATIONS STATUS FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DRUG PRICES ARE FALLING AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, 500%, 600%, 700%, and more."
There’s conscionable 1 occupation here: It's mathematically intolerable to person "savings" of 500% oregon more. The pharmaceutical companies would virtually beryllium paying you if that were the case.

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So RFK Jr. was questioned astatine a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, and we yet got immoderate penetration into however Trump’s mathematics works… oregon shall I accidental doesn't work.

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Here's what helium said astir those calculations:
"President Trump has a antithetic mode of calculating percentages. If you person a $600 cause and you trim it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."
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"President Trump has a antithetic mode of calculating, there’s 2 ways of calculating percentages. If you person a $600 cause and you trim it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction."

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For those who don't know, that is NOT however percentages work. Reducing a terms from $600 to $10 is really a 98.33% decrease. To get a 600% reduction, the pharmacy would person to springiness you the cause for escaped and past manus you $3,000 successful cash.

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The antheral is reinventing math???

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Anyway, the net has a batch to accidental astir this one, mostly things similar THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS.

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Let's instrumentality a look astatine 15 standouts:
14. "I'm going to archer my accountant that I person a antithetic mode of calculating my taxes."

13. "From alternate facts to alternate math."

10. "They’re virtually reinventing mathematics for him. Unprecedented levels of emperor successful nary clothes."

4. "This is similar saying shoplifting is simply a antithetic mode of buying clothes."

2. "The worm evidently ate the astir important parts."

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1. "Did I miss the exec bid that changed the basal rules of math?"


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