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Get ready for a huge deficit hike

Feb 23, 2017
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Trump administration will have a proposed tax plan completed by August. Based on campaign promises, its broad outlines will include a substantial cut to corporate taxes and perhaps reductions in individual taxes. Whatever the details, the plan will almost certainly blow up the federal deficit, and that has big […]