Anti-Tax Propaganda

Possibly the worst post on inequality I've ever seen.

The Myth Of American Income Inequality

The only reason anyone would use that title and then compare the bottom 20% to the next 40% to claim inequality in the US is not a problem is to mislead.  

Pure propaganda. 

I found this post a few days ago on a libertarian site and thought it was pretty crappy.  The author is Paul Caron of Pepperdine.

Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law on June 1, 2017. He explains his vision for Pepperdine and what drew him to the deanship at https://law.pepperdine.edu/about/dean.

At the time, I dismissed him as a anti-tax hack.

The today I saw this post.

How the Republican fake scandal machine works

Paul Caron is a law professor who operates Taxprof, a highly trafficked — by legal academic standards — blog. Caron has, as of a couple of days ago, put up 1699 (one thousand six hundred and ninety-nine) posts about the IRS “scandal,” continuing to do so for years after it was evident to any disinterested observer that the only scandal was the meta-scandal of treating an imaginary scandal as a real scandal, aka, Republican politics as usual. (If you’re inclined to get out of the boat, read the outbursts of right wing paranoia that festoon the comment threads to Caron’s posts on this subject, illustrating how fake scandals invented by the GOP scream machine are the zombies of contemporary American politics).

A few months ago, Caron was elevated to the deanship of Pepperdine’s law school. From 2004 to 2010, that same position was held by Ken Starr, which suggests the position is one of those sinecures reserved for those who have done great service for the Party.

One reason the GOP propaganda machine works so well is that lots of “respectable” people — law school deans, university presidents, thoughtful(tm) conservatives, and the like — remain part of it, sometimes no doubt without even realizing it themselves. At this juncture, these people are actually no more respectable or believable than Fox News, which in turn is no more respectable or believable than the Breitbart cesspool. They are all merely different faces of the same toxic, post-factual political propaganda machine. Yet lots of go along to get along liberals still refuse to face up to this politically and — even more so — socially uncomfortable fact.

So yes, Paul Caron is a conservative, anti-tax, misinformation hack.

What the hell is Pepperdine University doing giving him this kind of voice?

His next job will probably be at the Claremont Institute