DURING the weekend, a group of former finance secretaries circulated a message endorsing the passage of the second package of the Duterte administration’s Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) and urging Congress to act on the measures in a timely manner.

It seems to have become a fashion of late for groups of experts to weigh in on important questions facing the country by means of an “open letter,” “manifesto,” or at the very least a statement emailed to media outlets. One should be cautious in drawing conclusions from these “expert” views. After all, the “argument from authority” is one of the most basic logical fallacies, and the statements of experts who resort to it are often exposed as self-serving or just simply wrong after even just a cursory analysis.

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