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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Seriously: success in playing the stock market doesn't grant any magical insights into the effects of taxes on, say, real GDP. And the economics of capital gains taxation are actually very hard, even by tax econ standards 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 24, 2021

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Beyond that, when investment-industry types say that raising this tax would be terrible for the economy, we should ask: How do they know? 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 24, 2021

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So when we see people with a strong personal stake in tax policy making confident pronouncements about the effects of policy, with conclusions that serve their self-interest, how much weight should we give their opinions? I think less than zero 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 24, 2021