Never Yet Melted » Sophistry http://neveryetmelted.com The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:55:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The Patented Yglesias Side-Step http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/03/31/the-patented-yglesias-side-step/ http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/03/31/the-patented-yglesias-side-step/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:18:20 +0000 JDZ http://neveryetmelted.com/?p=5413 “What if the government put a cap on blog readership? or the number of words you could post?” one of Matthew Yglesias’s readers proposed as a thinking point in the course of arguing against the Gen Y pinko’s suggestion for a 95% tax on earnings over $10 million.

“Fine by me, I’d love to post fewer words,” replied the crafty Rand villain, carefully sidestepping the reduced benefits to him (fewer readers) portion of the analogy and seizing like a limpet onto to the “less work” portion. They train them well in precisely this kind of sophistry in our elite schools.

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