Paul Krugman's "The Tax-Cut Con," which ran in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, is the centerpiece of an all-Krugman, all-the-time blitzkrieg media tour to promote the pundit's new book, The Great Unraveling. The article offers Krugman's revisionist history of 25 years of "a crusade against taxes" — which he argued has "more or less deliberately, set the United States up for a fiscal crisis." The goal of this deliberate crisis, according to Krugman, is to allow "conservatives" to, in the name of fiscal necessity ... dismantle immensely popular government programs that would otherwise have been untouchable. ... America a...