Why Republicans win the tax debate — and how progressives can do better

“Virtually everything Republicans say about taxes today is a lie.” So wrote Bruce Bartlett, one of the 1980s architects of GOP economic orthodoxy, in a late September op-ed for USA Today. Bartlett was an aide to Rep. Jack Kemp, the highly influential New York Republican. “I helped originate the Republican obsession with slashing taxes that came to be called  ‘supply-side economics,'” Bartlett explained, and he still thinks that was useful under the circumstances at the time. But “it has long outlived its usefulness and is now nothing but dogma completely divorced from reality,” he wrote.

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