in the U.S. must be close to 100%. (I'm a political junkie, and spreadsheet nerd, and a former engineering student, and I still don't feel like I have a firm grasp on how many millionaires would have to forgo their favorite two vacations each year for the next ten years in order to guarantee that everyone in the country would have three meals a day by 2017.)McGroarty strings together, in a vaguely connected way, a mesmerizing and confounding litany of (presumably true) facts and figures long and winding enough to leave Rain Man
scratching his head, then ties them together with the non-sequitur thesis and conclusion, "Taxing the rich can't possibly be the answer to 'how to tackle taxes and federal spending'" and presumably hopes that whichever fact people carry away, they will bring his conclusion along for the ride. I suppose that's a skill that's highly valued in the "issues management consulting" industry, but it's a low-rate magic trick that doesn't do our political discourse any good, in my opinion.
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