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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by pessimizer on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:45PM (#19342504)
> Raising taxes instead of increased deficit spending is an example of something that is often unpopular, but in many cases the objectively better option.

I don't think that you could get any reasonably representative range of economists in a room to even agree that this is ever a better option, so I think your claim to objectivity is unwarranted.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by dragonwriter on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:48PM (#19342534)
Well, if the pre-existing taxes were zero, you could probably get a most economists to agree that raising taxes was better than increasing deficit spending.

Beyond that...yeah.

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