Hacktacular!
By Shorter Glenn Reynolds: If you pretend that “the federal income tax” comprises all taxation and examine payments in total dollars rather than percentages of income, then my claim about Bush making has made the tax code more progressive is a less obvious lie!
It’s also hard to see why a “libertarian” would care enough about the progressivity of the tax code to make such transparently stupid arguments in the first place. A diehard Republican operative, on the other hand…