Re: The Populist Myths on Income Inequality

[Submitted to The New York Times 9/6/2006 Re: The Populist Myths on Income Inequality]

To the Editors -

David Brooks has mounted a vigorous but misleading defense of the conservative neo-Feudalism by gliding right past its sins: cut taxes on the rich while sending the poor to war, tax working people's income but not rich people's wealth (capital gains), eliminate the dynasty tax on the rich so they can build eternal family baronies of inherited wealth, use corporate coffers to finance politicians to get subsidies from the government.

The common good for We the People? Hah!  Conservatives like Brooks see the common goodies for the most manipulative, not the most deserving.

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