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Tariffs and Tru_p

…teary eyed and sentimental over “gasoline taxes” or maybe “land transfer taxes.” This is real whack job stuff. But even worse, Trump doesn’t seem to understand the object of his…

Taxes and the deficit

This morning in his Monday column Paul Krugman discussed the need to raise taxes to deal with the long run structural federal deficit. You can read the column at Economist’s…