Oh I know. I kind of agree with him. I laughed when he said at that republican debate how if they legalize drugs and prostitutes that doesn't mean everyone in the building was gonna go out and get a hooker and an 8 ball.

It got huge laughs from the audience, but not so much the other candidates.

I'm amazed she or anyone else in the movement has even bothered offering a spurious theoretical justification for it. Telling the teabaggers that any revenue increases are evil and contrary to the Will of Reagan -- even the ones that are, for all practical purposes, cuts to a stealth method of spending -- seems to have done the trick on its own. And there's no doubt Bachmann herself knows better. Sure, her JD is from an awful Evangelical proprietary institution that shut down a year after she left, but she's got a perfectly legitimate tax LLM. If she were just insisting that we couldn't increase revenue by raising marginal rates, I might be able to believe she was sincere. Obviously, demonstrably wrong, but sincere. But if she's actually arguing that loopholes are free, or even revenue-increasing, the only explanation is lying.