But you knew that he meant percentage ... and that billionaire investment bankers pay nearly half the marginal rate on their capital gains as the plumber pays on his wages, right? Did you REALLY mean to defend that kind of deep discount for the wealthy? Is that what this is coming to, a support for open and direct regressivity?

"There’s a reason the Constitution begins “We the people . . .” rather than “We the unconnected individuals who couldn’t care less about one another . . . .” - Eugene Robinson