Declaring War on the White House

In today's NY Times, Paul Krugman's op-ed takes the administration to task over its tax cut propoganda campaign. He uses the administration's own table to show that 32% of the tax savings went to the richest 1% of the population and 53% went to the richest 10%.

Then he goes on to say:

I'm sure that this column will provoke a furious counterattack from the administration, an all-out attempt to discredit my math. Yet if I'm wrong, there's an easy way to prove it: just release the raw data used to construct the table titled "Projected Share of Individual Income Taxes and Income in 2006."

That's a direct challenge, guys.

Although it's not in the printed version, the Times Select version goes on to instruct reporters on how to interpret the White House's non-response.

Memo to reporters: if the administration doesn't release those numbers, that's in effect a confession of guilt, an implicit admission that the data contradict the administration's spin.

I guess Krugman has declared all out war on the White House.


Tristero at Hullabaloo has the whole thing here.