November 7, 2011
In the Outlook section of yesterday's Washington Post, Alec MacGillis of the New Republic, notes that there are more culprits than the thieves on Wall Street to blame for the nation's growing income inequality.
There are many sins for which it is difficult to forgive Bill Clinton, but surely his decision, highlighted by MacGillis, to lower the capital gains tax rate, after Ronald Reagan had raised it, is one of the biggest.