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Professor Paul Romer comments on Donald Trump's proposal to get rid of carried interest tax loopholes
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Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "There is an increasing consensus on his specific point about ending the carried interest loophole...[Paul] Romer noted that this mood strikes American politics periodically, as it did under President Ronald Reagan, when Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986. 'It could be that what’s emerging is a consensus from various parts of the political spectrum ... that the complexity and special treatment and special favors have just gotten to be too much,' he said."
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