No, seriously, there's a conservative case for tax hikes

Meanwhile, I took some fire with my recent post here on the conservative case for raising taxes. I expected some conservative pals to criticize it, and would have been worried had they not. And in a private exchange, a prominent liberal found my outline “appallingly bad,” which greatly pleases me. But as a sequel don’t miss Richard Epstein’s thoughts on the matter, which are not identical to, but are congruent with, my case made here before. Above all he throws down this gantlet: “The Republicans should break ranks with Grover Norquist’s tax advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform, and its ‘no new taxes’ pledge.”