Commentary: Trump and tacos and the difficulty of math

Commentary: Trump and tacos and the difficulty of math

I once split a lunch bill with a Ph.D. statistician. By the time he finished his calculations, 50-50 had added up to three different sets of tips and two plus two no longer consistently equaled four. Thus was I introduced to government math: Mystery money goes in; mystery money goes out. English majors usually don’t math. But May has yielded a bumper crop of numbers, from Trump’s Big Budget Bomb and all its little bomblets to an impeccably timed…