There is nothing really positive to say about Steven Pearlstein’s July29th Washington Post article titled Health Reform Threatened by Conservatives’ Anti-Tax Fantasy. Pearlstein opens:

Nothing has been more damaging to rational discourse about economic policy than the notion, peddled relentlessly by Republican conservatives and accepted by too many centrist Democrats, that raising taxes is always and everywhere bad for the economy.

But what Pearlstein fails to tell his readers is that Republicans in Congress have sponsored or co-sponsored no less than three bills that actually raise taxes to help pay for health care reform. It is actually Congressional Democrats, big labor, … Continue Reading