A REAL LAFFER

The usually readable Tim Noah goes after Faux News anchor Tony Snow (or "Brit-lite"), point-by-point, for his criticism of Bush tax plan as being -- get this -- "too redistributive".

(hold on, slowly getting up from the floor)

Ok. One of Noah's pithy takedowns:

Under the Bush plan, "the poor get the largest proportional tax breaks, the richest, the smallest." But the poor don't pay much income tax in the first place, so a small cut is going to look very impressive proportionally. Gentle reminder: The poor don't pay much income tax because they don't have much income.

And by the way, as Noah also mentions, why do conservatives never consider payroll taxes to be part of this issue? It seems that if you are required to wear a hairnet several hours a day, then Dubya doesn't consider your taxes worth cutting or easing. Certainly this is ironic, since if his last name were different, that could have been where Dubya would've ended up.