HOW DOES PONNURU GET AWAY WITH THIS?

Back in 2004, he punctured the St. Raygun Myth and now he debunks another wingnut meme: (h/t The Dish)

The Freeloader Myth
Ramesh Ponnuru
November 21, 2011 4:00 A.M.

From the Nov. 28, 2011, issue of NR

The Tax Foundation has calculated the percentage of filers in each state who pay income tax. The ten states with the highest number of non-payers are a strongly Republican bunch: Eight of them went for John McCain in 2008, and nine of them have Republican governors. Keith Hennessey, an economic adviser in George W. Bush’s administration, notes that the historical data suggest that the child credit was the main reason for the increase in the number of non-payers between 1995 and 2007. If the conservative story about falling income-tax rolls is true, then, we should expect to see middle-income parents moving left, compared with the general electorate, during that period. There is no evidence that anything of the sort has happened.