Oct. 19, 2012 at 7:55pm with 26 notes
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pol102:

NPR’s Planet Money team has been covering the election by looking at, well, economics. Recently they unveiled their “Economist Candidate,” a fake presidential candidate who would run on the plan put together by a slate of economists (left & right) based on a six point plank:

  1. Eliminate the home mortgage interest deduction
  2. End the deduction that corporations get for paying for employee health insurance
  3. Eliminate the corporate income tax altogether
  4. Eliminate all personal income and payroll taxes
  5. Replace Federal tax income with a progressive national consumption tax and additional taxes on activities that cause environmental damage such as energy use
  6. Legalize drugs

This is their fake candidate’s first campaign ad.

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