Fiscal Reform: Time to Channel Reagan?
Daniel Henninger’s article in today’s Wall Street Journal is angry, but it also makes a good point about the opportunity for fiscal reform in the United States. For the short term, it’s looking bad. And yet, as Henninger points out, we know the recipe for success. Reagan applied it in the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The ’86 tax act reduced tax rates on personal income and also famously gutted many nonproductive “tax shelters.” In short,…
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