A Great Idea! Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit by a trillion dollars over the next decade! We could easily pay for it with a carbon tax that would stimulate an economic boom in the clean energy industry and retard climate change to boot. Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? Economists do, but they (including me) are often wrong.

What Would It Take to Replace the Pay Working-Class Americans Have Lost?

Economic View

By  NEIL IRWIN DEC. 9, 2016

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