Tax the Rich!

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Author(s) John Judis
Source The New Republic
Date July 21, 2009
URL http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=700da4c9-ed0f-4036-a017-ce2cc0667a78
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Quotes-start.png "The Wall Street Journal editorial page has promoted the notion that the way to encourage growth is by putting more money into the hands of wealthy. By this reasoning, any proposal to tax the rich would threaten the economy. These arguments were made, of course, against the Clinton administration's tax increases in 1993. But afterwards the country enjoyed an economic boom." Quotes-end.png


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