The Gist

A Tax on Both Their Houses

The New Yorker’s Adam Davidson looks back at the presidential  campaign and its wasteland of tax policies.

Honking, a questionably effective anti-tax strategy. (Above, an anti-IRS protester on April 17, 2006 in Van Nuys, California.)

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We have (almost) survived a presidential campaign. Are we any smarter about taxes? On The Gist, Adam Davidson considers Donald Trump’s apparent tax practices and explains the biggest barrier to bipartisan compromise on tax policy. Davidson covers business and economics for the New Yorker.

­­For the Spiel, even Mike Pesca can’t sooth your nerves over volatile polling.

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