Afternoon Must-Read: “Keep the government’s hands off my Medicare!” was supposed to be a joke at the expense of a small uninformed fringe, not a typical and widespread reaction:

Vivekinan Ashok et al.: Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative explanations: “Despite the large increases in economic inequality since 1970, American survey respondents exhibit no increase in support for redistribution…