"deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate"

"The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us. Business doesn't pay taxes, and who better than business to make this message known? Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business. Begin with the food and fiber raised in the farm, to the ore drilled in a mine, to the oil and gas from out of the ground, whatever it may be -- through the processing, through the manufacturing, on out to the retailer's license. If the tax cannot be included in the price of the product, no one along that line can stay in business." --Ronald Reagan

Which pretty much means that almost every Federal Democrat is either a liar, or too ignorant to have an informed opinion on the subject of taxes. Of course, that shouldn't surprise us. Many of the same people have been doing it to the First and Second Amendments for some time now.