Correction for Fareed Zakaria: Tax Cuts Sort of Work and There Was No Simpson Bowles Commission Plan

No one expects great insights from the people who write on economic issues on the Post's opinion pages, but Fareed Zakaria's latest piece is an extraordinary exercise in confusion. Zakaria is anxious to tell us that tax cuts "don't work," but he never tells readers what he means by "work."

The story on tax cuts is pretty simple: people either spend the money or they save it. Whether or not tax cuts "work" will depend on the extent to which they do one or the other and the extent to which we w...