An email re: my debate with Chait:

Jonah:
Being exactly the kind of guy who enjoys “highly geeky insidery snarky stuff,” I consider your debate with Jonathan Chait to be great fun and pretty interesting. I would, however, like to reinforce one of the points you made about Chait’s argument: Doesn’t he MOTHER!@#$%!* understand that there is no such GOD@$&! thing as “works better” if people are seeking different ends!!!
This is one of things that infuriates me (though I obviously do a fabulous job of concealing my anger) about pointy-headed liberal types.
And one more thing before my blind rage totally consumes me, Chait writes, “Whereas if you could prove that tax cuts for the rich really could produce enough growth that the revenue would replace itself, every important liberal pundit would support them anyway.” I feel compelled to call complete and total bullsh*t here. If modern liberalism has any organizing principle, it is that it seeks a “more equal” world. Even if tax cuts for the rich doubled government revenues, liberals would still be opposed to them because the gap between rich and poor would widen. As Thomas Sowell says, “If everyone woke up twice as rich tomorrow as they are today, the headline of the New York Times would be: Gap Between Rich and Poor Widens”
Keep up the great work,