Zombie Straw Men
"One of the occupational hazards of trying to debate policy issues with the right (it happens occasionally on the left, but much less so) is the way you constantly face charges of attacking a strong man. Lay out some conservative position, and you’re sure to get the plausible-sounding wing of the movement declaring that “nobody is claiming that ..” where “that” might be that government spending can never create jobs, or that the planet isn’t warming, or — the subject of this post — that there hasn’t actually been any rise in income inequality."
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