The debate we're having on tax reform is quite revealing. There's an obsessive interest in this country with the distribution of income, when we should be having that level of discussion about the production of income. It just seems to be assumed....
I wrote recently, in a column in The Post, that before anybody goes around talking about redistributing income in this country, I want them to tell me how income is created. If you can't tell me how income is created, I don't really want to hear your ideas about how it's distributed. If you think money just grows on trees, and you don't have any idea what is the impact of what you're proposing on the production of income.... That comes first, and then the distribution comes second. If you can't tell me about how the first is affected, I don't really want to hear your opinion about the second.