Joseph E. Stiglitz | The US Donor Relief Act of 2017




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Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate 
Stiglitz writes: "There is nothing about the GOP's recently-passed tax package that lives up to its proponents' promises; it is neither a reform effort nor an equitable tax cut. Rather, the bill embodies all that is wrong with the Republican Party, and to some extent, the debased state of American democracy." 
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