'FLAT TAXER FLATLINES'
No friend of gays, Heritage-Foundation Jack seems to be one of those people who got involved in the wrong ideas too early in life (or the people with the wrong ideas).
We still haven't figured out how to pay for his ideas, or capture in (tax) policy the few nuggets they did manage to uncover along the way.
In fact, the entire Laffer-led crowd has piled on more national debt than any despairing Keynesian could have imagined possible, even under weak kneed Congress critters.
It's fitting that he was able to see 'teabagging' parties, as the culmination of the Reagan-era postulates. And, perhaps, to see as well the monetary hero of the same, wondering aloud how self-interest and the wealth of the wealthy were not enough ...
Monday, May 4, 2009
Jack Kemp
