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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: paul_philp who wrote (59799)12/4/2002 11:21:58 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Thanks for posting the link to the original piece from the WSJ editorial on increasing the taxes on the poor, as well as links to the Dionne and Krugman pieces. Looks to me both Dionne and Krugman are exactly right. I fail to see the difference. I don't see that Dionne included sales taxes as something the poor pay, depending rather on the outrage of the wealthy paying such a small percentage of their income for SS taxes. But they are basically making the same point.

And who wishes to quarrel with Krugman's conclusion that one of the ideological wellsprings of the more radical conservatives at the moment is to use tax cuts to shrink the size of government. They, evidently, think government is the problem, rather than environmental pollution, underfunded infrastructure maintence and upgrade, adequate health care, etc., etc.
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