A. BARTON HINKLE: Democratic Fairfax Embraces Its Inner Tea Party: Even people who benefit from big government love it less when they have to live under it.

That’s not the only way in which heavily Democratic Fairfax sounds sympathetic to the Tea Party rabble. Like those grassroots conservatives in tricorner hats, the county also thinks it is Taxed Enough Already.

Fairfax is one of the richest counties in America. With a median household income in six figures, it comes in second only to the nation’s richest county, next-door Loudoun. And yet, as reported recently in The Washington Post, the county’s wish list “includes other perennial desires: that Northern Virginia taxpayers see more of the money they send to Richmond, for example.”

“Overall, the county would be pleased if the Virginia General Assembly would stop using Northern Virginia as its piggybank,” continues The Post. Translation: Fairfax does not want to “spread the wealth around,” as Barack Obama put it to Joe the Plumber. But wait – Obama says spreading the wealth around is “good for everybody.” Does the county disagree?

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied that that’s where the money is. Same goes for Northern Virginia: The heavily populated, high-income region generates a big chunk of the state’s wealth. Where else should legislators look for revenue – Pearisburg (population 2,700, median household income $40,000)?

What happened to making the rich pay their fair share?

They mean those other rich people.