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Republicans Are Taking Voter Concerns About The Tax Bill Too Literally

The following article by Nate Silver was posted on the FiveThirtyEight website December 21, 2017:

President Trump celebrates with Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans outside the White House on Wednesday after Congress passed a sweeping tax overhaul. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

In reading coverage of the Republican tax bill, which passed the House on Wednesday and is ready for President Trump’s signature, I was reminded of this famous clip of the 1992 “town hall” presidential debate between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush,1 in which a voter asked the candidates a question about the “national debt” and how it had “personally affected” their lives. Continue reading “Republicans Are Taking Voter Concerns About The Tax Bill Too Literally”