Apart from likely pleasing The Wall Street Journal, the arguments that the author gets David to deliver are graceful and sensitive; not bludgeons but invitations to dialogue.
A version of the Journal's argument appeared in Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court decision that, in 2013, gutted the Voting Rights Act.
And yet the Journal's argument made a kind of sense: by reducing the number of people who pay federal income tax, the government also reduces the number of people who have a vested interest in the federal income-tax rate.
The thrust of the Journal's argument is pretty simple: Quarantining health workers might have a chilling effect on others looking to travel to Ebola-stricken countries and perform the much-needed task of treating the men, women and children suffering from the deadly virus.
Paul Krugman: I thought it might be worth saying something about the Wall Street Journal-type argument that, since the economy grew after the 2003 tax cut, tax cuts are vindicated, and should be made permanent.
U.S. JOURNAL about recent arguments over control of beachfront land.
The New Yorker, November 18 , 1972P. 215 U.S. JOURNAL about recent arguments over control of beachfront land.
By Calvin Trillin The New Yorker, November 18 , 1972P. 215 U.S. JOURNAL about recent arguments over control of beachfront land.
In 1990, he and four other astronomers, including Drs. Arp and Hoyle, published a broadside in the journal Nature listing arguments against the Big Bang.
Hopefully Congress will notice this, and apply some scrutiny to the journal industry's arguments for the Research Works Act.
