IN THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, Kyle Wingfield endorses my federal-employee surtax proposal. It’s a groundswell, baby! But he takes it farther: “How about a 50 percent tax on financial transactions by members of Congress and their staffs while they are with the government, and for five years thereafter? Let them trade all they want on the knowledge they gain as public, ahem, servants. Just make sure that half of the proceeds go to the U.S. Treasury.”

I like it!

UPDATE: Some related thoughts on “public servants.” “What kind of servants are these, after all, who come and go as they please, who respond to neither phone calls nor letters, who hire their own family and friends and then exempt themselves from the very laws they’d have us observe?”