Michael Kinsley defends the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Is there anyone out there these days who thinks that taxes should be lower for all? Everyone I see these days who advocates the cutting of taxes seems quite uninterested in trimming what our government spends and sometimes — as Kinsley notes — even hostile to the idea that new expenditures should be linked to some funding source. Unless I hear someone get realistic about how to pay for cuts or new expenditures, I figure it's all just another way of saying, "Spend as much as possible on the stuff I care about. Just make sure someone else pays for it."