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The Richer vs. the Richest

Mere Affluence

The Mitt Romney tax plan proposed to cut taxes for the very rich and offset those tax cuts with tax increases for the merely rich. I wrote about this tension just before the election.

The issue has not gone away with the Romney defeat. People at the bottom edge of the top 1% will be much more affected by changes in tax deductions than by changes in tax rates.

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