Once again polling shows that the inside-the-beltway crowd is completely out of step with what large majorities of the public wants. What the people want are progressive policies. How would have thought?

While there is a strong belief that wealth should be more evenly distributed, the country is more divided on whether or not the government should correct this problem by heavily taxing the rich and redistributing the wealth.

Thanks to many loopholes in our tax code–the carried interest loophole being the most important–the richest people in American are likely paying a lower tax rate than you are.