The false frame of regulation vs. inequality

Published January 17, 2012 5:00am ET



For the Washington Post’s pollsters and liberal bloggers, it’s pretty black and white: you’re either for helping the wealthy, or you’re for more regulation. That seems to have been the notion behind the Post’s latest poll question

What do you think is the bigger problem in this country – unfairness in the economic system that favors the wealthy, or over-regulation of the free market that interferes with growth and prosperity?

Greg Sargent, from the Post’s platoon of liberal bloggers, likes this black-and-white framing:

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