What passes for a right-of-center voice on The New York Times's op-ed page, David Brooks, pronounces, "I'm no longer spiritually attached to the Democratic Party," then goes on, later in the same column, to say, "We will have to raise a consumption tax."
As I reported earlier, there's increasing openness to a value-added or consumption tax on the center-right. Still, the call for taxes to be raised suggests that if Mr. Brooks no longer has a spiritual attachment to the Democratic Party, he does have some attachment to its tax policies.
