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> 2. Because that kind of stuff is banned, the average digg/reddit reader, if he comes across News.YC, finds the content boring and leaves.

Yesterday we had both a "global warming" story, and a "you can't soak the rich" story. Those kinds of things are far more interesting and accessible to random non hackers, than say, this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196425

>>davidw+(OP)
I voted up the Can't Soak the Rich story. It's a very interesting idea that tax revenues are a roughly constant fraction of the GDP. Not all stories about politically charged topics are merely political stories.

>>pg+d2
> Not all stories about politically charged topics are merely political stories.

I think between sources like the FT, The Economist, and various economics blogs, I run into a lot of stories that are interesting to me in that same way, that I would never consider submitting here, because they are pretty much guaranteed to degrade into the same old hashed and rehashed debates.