Today, in the Star Tribune newspaper, our former state auditor, Pat Anderson, argues that "[t]axes on the 'wealthy,' like so many progressive policies, actually work against the stated objectives."
As George Will would say, when he isn't lying about global warming, "Well."
Anderson has nothing to say that hasn't been said ten million times by Republicans with prose styles even more wooden than hers. "Punishing job creators," she lectures, "so that we can expand nonsustainable government programs makes no economic sense." As if President Clinton's economic program, which raised taxes on the highest earners, proved to be a jobs-killer. As if the tax-cutting Bushies have dropped us along a rainbow slide into the land of milk and honey.
I have a different idea of what's "nonsustainable."
Their lines are so palpably learned. To believe them you'd have to think it was your duty. They are fundamentalist in religion and fundamentalist in economics. The world goes too fast for them. Events have proven them wrong but they haven't the wit to change their tune.
Anderson is now "president" of something called "the Minnesota Free Market Institute." I just visited their website and it is just as you'd expect.
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