Our media elites don't like paying taxes

During Obama's "60 Minutes" interview, I applauded the president for pushing back on the idea that raising taxes on the 1% of wealthiest Americans would "stall" a recovery. But I wished he'd gone farther by coming back with a question such as, "Well Steve [Kroft], I have to believe that someone like you makes a wee bit more that a quarter million each year. Maybe more than a wee bit. If we allow your portion of the Bush tax cuts to expire, what is it you won't buy next year that you otherwise would have?"

Jonathan Chait reminds us why this notion that higher taxes for the wealthiest is anti-capitalist is so powerfully intertwined in our senses.