For the plain and obvious reason that they entirely ignore economics when they do their calculations.

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The Constitution is made up of words, and those words have plain and obvious meanings.

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That means incentives that are less obvious than plain old cash rebates.

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No less obvious is the fact that ideas about plain speaking do not travel easily across the Channel.

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