Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Conservative Taxophobia

Jon Chait has just published an excellent essay on the conservative fixation on tax cuts.

Highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand this phenomenon.

2 comments:

  1. This is very good, I really enjoyed it. One thing that stuck out for me was, towards the end of the article, the mention of the class war being waged in the name of "freedom". One of the weirdest things to me is when a conservative equates his money with his freedom.

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  2. Yea, Chait is my favorite political columnist. His essays are routinely excellent. If you are interested in this subject, you should check out his book "The Big Con".
    http://www.amazon.com/Big-Crackpot-Economics-Fleecing-America/dp/0547085702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300685485&sr=1-1

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