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Another stupid idea from the AFL-CIO

September 1, 2009 - 6:36 am - by Roger Kimball
David Thomson
2009-09-01 13:06:44

“Wealth produces wealth. Taxes reduce wealth. Got it?”

I completely agree. Unfortunately, the late Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith has dominated America’s cultural landscape. Milton Freidman and Freidrich Hayek may have ultimately earned a Nobel Prize—but the author of The Affluent Society and other such silly books captured the hearts and minds of those controlling the Democratic Party. The damage has been enormous.