Btw, here’s a pretty good post on tax progressivity & income inequality by the last-surving Atari Democrat living in the wild, doing his best impression of Bob Murphy: ripping apart Krugman’s mendacity.
You kids really should follow the link, if only because, well, “Atari Democrats”/”New Democrats” are historical artifacts of a bygone era, and this might be your only chance to see one in action before he goes entirely extinct.