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I’m watching TV and seeing all the insanity of the “special” first vehicle registration tax.

I see Mr. (Sebastian Teodor) Gheorghe Vlădescu on TV, with his signature smile.

I feel offended. But I don’t want to in any way offend such a high ranking representative of the state, so I will quote him from an interview he gave six months ago for  Săptămâna Financiară [Financial Weekly] and I’m sure that the truly mathematical opinion of this state representative will make you laugh.
The interview can be found here (or here).

To keep it short, I’m talking about this part of the interview:

(Sebastian Teodor) Gheorghe Vlădescu: “In the United States of America, every citizen has an education plan for their children. There is concern for the education of their own children. In Europe this is almost non-existent. And in Romania, maybe one family out of 100,000 has such concerns.”
I was eating a McChicken as I was reading this article. When I got to this paragraph I had a sudden attack of bird flu. (No, it was not the food. McDonald’s has extraordinary food safety policies and I think I have a better chance of getting bird flu by eating pork than by eating a McChicken.)

What follows is a demonstration using “reductio ad absurdum” (4th grade Maths).

According to the CIA, Romania had that same month a population of 22.303.552 persons. Of these, persons aged 15 through 64 (seeing as this is the way they’re listed on cia.gov and I have no other calculations) there were: 7.724.368 men and 7.797.065 women. Less men then women. I’m going to assume that every man is married to a woman (thereby maximizing the number of families – WOW, all us Romanians are married right now ). More so, I’m going to assume that all these 7.724.368 fictional families have at least one child.

We will verify how many Romanian families are concerned with the education of their children and, namely “has an education plan for their children“.

7.724.368 fictional families / 100.000 = 77,24 families

Wow… so by reducing everything to the absurd and maximizing the number of families, we end up with 77 (seventy-seven) families that are concerned of their children’s education. The other 7.724.291 (seven million seven hundred and twenty-four thousand two-hundred and ninety-one) fictional families couldn’t care less.

Now… I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’m thinking there are more than 77,24 families that are interested in their children’s education.

Please interpret the interview yourselves and give out a Maths’ grade for Romania’s Minister of Public Finance.

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