Legal Commentary

Rewriting History

By Big Tent Democrat

Here is Beltway Blogger Ezra Klein rewriting history in order to pretend raising taxes is juuust tooo hard:

As we've seen a couple of times now, when deficit reduction comes into conflict with tax cuts, tax cuts win. They win, in fact, every time, and have won every time since Ronald Reagan.

That's just false. Of course Bill Clinton raised taxes, and on the rich. Now Ezra Klein knows this. What is his interest in writing this falsehood? My guess is it is to excuse the "Grand Bargain" he suspects the Obama Administration may be embarking upon.

And in order to do this, Ezra Klein has to pretend Bill Clinton's 1993 tax increases on the rich never happened.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).