Reality Check: The Facts vs. the Left's Top Two Lies About Tax Reform

Posted on AllSides December 2, 2017

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In the interest of intellectual honesty and transparency, let's begin with a few important concessions to skeptics of the GOP tax reform bill: First, not every single American would be

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