Sheldon Richman uses his The Goal is Freedom column to pummel Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for his recent statement in support of increasing taxes on “the rich.” Richman analyzes Geithnerian logic and finds it to be a tissue of fallacies meant to deceive gullible Americans.

Read through to the end and you’ll also get a wonderful blast at John Kerry.

Statists left and right need to manipulate people into thinking that good things will happen when they control the government. They’re horrified at the prospect that millions of Americans they thought they had under their control are starting to figure out that they’ve been had.