even jon stuart on "the daily show" really gets things right and wrong.s criticizing the president for talking about spending through the tax code and criticizing him to say that, in fact, that's where we raise money company up we spend it. what's wrong with this guy? i think the person had this one exactly right. when i say they are almost invisible, i'm not neglecting that portion of the analytical perspectives which you've already because it's table back there, tax expenditures i program. the joint committee on taxation produces another such table. but that information is not salient to budget makers. like a lot of other things that we've been talking about today, like of which kind of costs are really controllable in the budget right now with respect to entitlements or with respect to long-term spending, that they, in fact, are missing in action. it's very easy to ignore the existence of those spending equivalents that are large in the budget. so what? so what if they are distorted? if we were all perfectly rational, you know, economic man, economic w