If you assume that the United States of America needs to fund its government at all — though a number of Grover-Norquist-addled Republicans apparently don’t — may I gently suggest that we’re looking for the bucks in all the wrong places.
Not that Democrats are wrong to want to close income-tax loopholes for corporations and the rich. Given the stunning levels of inequality that increasingly misshape our economy, raising income taxes on the wealthiest among us is essential if we wish to preserve the national defense, schools and secure retirements.
In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named 
