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Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes

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The Fraying Social Compact

The Republican Party has remade itself largely into this tax cut party, says Molly Mitchell Moore. That makes the kinds of compromises that had made possible a post-war social compact more difficult to strike," she says. The income tax is only one part of the sort of tax regime in the U.S., and it's not just about taxes for rich or poor; there are many other ways people pay their bills.

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