Got to love Cato's David Boaz. Responding to reports that Nancy Pelosi will prove herself a fiscal conservative if made speaker, he writes:
Another NTU report showed that Pelosi voted in the interests of taxpayers only 11 percent of the time on tax and budget votes.
I just love that framing, as if taxpayers have a singular interest, and that's lower taxes. After all, I'm a taxpayer, and I'd like some government health care even if it raises my taxes. It will, after all, lower what I pay in premiums. It's indicative of the overwhelming myopia of some libertarians and their remarkably reductive view of taxation that they can actually consider taxpayers entities with no interests beyond the size of their tax burden. It's a very weird way of looking at government, and one that must make the actual political preferences of voters look rather inexplicable.
