David Brooks' Trouble With Arithmetic Leads Him Astray Again

David Brooks would benefit hugely from a remedial course in grade school arithmetic. It might keep him from saying silly things in his NYT columns like:

"We are now a mature nation with an aging population. Far from being underinstitutionalized, we are bogged down with a bloated political system, a tangled tax code, a byzantine legal code and a crushing debt."

If he were more acquainted with arithmetic he would be able to go to government publications and discover that far from being "crushin...