The false frame of regulation vs. inequality

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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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