A bit from Andrew Sullivan:

I’d just prefer to tackle inequality by investing in education rather than skewing tax rates.

This is a rather interesting use of language: designed to hide the fact that free public education, as it exists in America, is a highly redistributionist system. Oh, maybe it’s an especially worthy one since it helps the poor help themselves, and maybe it’s better to redistribute wealth through a flat tax than a system of sharply progressive tax brackets. But the rhetoric here is a bit odd.