An email:

You say here that you are not adverse to making the rich pay more. The top 1% of income earners now pay 40% of all Federal Income Taxes. What more should they pay? Why do you wish to steal their money just because they have it? I don’t know what’s the point of NR. It seems that since the great WHB has passed away, big government conservatives (I just like to call you liberals) have taken over. I predict that 20 years from now National Review’s content will be in line with The Nation magazine.

If Congress were voting on legislation to cap the mortgage-interest deduction and the state-and-local tax deduction and, in return, cut income tax rates across the board, I would be inclined to favor the deal. The fact that it would make the income-tax burden more progressive would not stop me from backing tax-policy changes that would promote growth and reduce economic distortions. Neither would the possibility that a writer for The Nation might agree. Finally, I think it is a mistake to look at income taxes and payroll taxes in isolation from each other (as that 40 percent statistic encourages us to do).