Jonah Goldberg: The problem isn’t raising taxes, it’s spending, spending, spending
Confession time: I’m open to raising taxes. As a lifelong conservative, making this case comes as easily as arguing for a weak national defense, or more United Nations funding.
So please bear with me as I walk through why I’m open to the idea.
One of the most important lessons of the last two decades is that black swan events — game-changing surprises — aren’t nearly so rare as we’d like.
In 2001, a terrorist attack resulted in two decades of
