Talk:985: Percentage Points

Our study shows that only 5% of people know the difference between percentages and percentage points. This is 50% lower than in 2009. --DiEvAl (talk) 06:30, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Actually, penis size based tax is a brilliant idea. You only have to tax proportional to size, and, now comes the utterly clever part, let the male citizen self-declare his penis size. Voila, tax flow will always be higher than planned. 108.162.230.89 17:58, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

I am glad that under this system my tax burden would be unashamedly miniscule! Which is probably something no one wanted to know! -Pennpenn 162.158.2.221 06:15, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

  You've overlooked the fact that there is no reference to whether the measurement would be plus or minus and where the measurement would be taken. The tax could be on those with small (or no) penises. And to do it that way would make sure the tax included both those with and those without a penis.

Perhaps age could be a factor and of course shrinkage must be taken into consideration. Jakee308 (talk) 11:21, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

I was actually 108.162.230.89's idea, not what's in the comic. That concept was self declaring, so no measurement, and proportional, so "larger size = higher tax". -Pennpenn 162.158.2.221 23:54, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

10 years later, and I feel like the joke has actually evolved a bit now - given the "stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot someone" quote, I think that there might be a legitimate confusion as to if it is percentage change or percentage point changes, even with these extreme policies :) ChunyangD (talk) 17:29, 29 September 2026 (UTC)