This is an example of refuting my argument by actually arguing about it instead of discrediting me because I am not an economist.

Yeah, hence the [missing the point] label... ;)

My problem is when instead of your answer above you write "are you an economist? have you investigated this?" with the obvious objective of coming after my answer with an "ok, so your premise is false because you don't know what you are talking about".

Yeah. That's a pain in the neck.

Silly counter-rebuttal:

"Well, are you an economist?"

Not-so-silly counter-rebuttals:

No, but this is Econ 101 stuff you can look up on Wikipedia or whatever.
No, but that's what Famous Economist wrote. Here, go look at his stuff. (link)
No, so I might be confused about something. Can you explain where I went wrong?