"Zombie Straw Men" by Paul Krugman at the NY Times

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Zombie Straw Men

by Paul Krugman at the NY Times

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/zombie-straw-men/

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Does this look to you like a situation in which you would declare that there is no long-run upward trend in income inequality?

The thing is, I’m quite sure that this is a deliberate attempt to obfuscate. The Tax Foundation people have to have known what they were doing.

Actually, there’s one place where you can easily catch them red-handed. When they want to claim that those poor rich people are bearing too high a tax burden compared with the lucky duckies, they pretend that federal income taxes are the only taxes. But when they calculate Tax Freedom Day, which is supposed to show how terribly overtaxed we all are, somehow all those taxes that don’t make it into the distribution calculation are front and center.

But back to my main point: when the reasonable-sounding guys declare that “nobody is saying that”, rest assured, there are big movement conservative organization saying exactly that.

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