What's $2.8 Trillion Between Friends? Can We Try to Make These Numbers Meaningful?

Jeff Stein's Wonkblog piece told Post readers the good news that the vast majority of Senator Kamala Harris' proposed $2.8 trillion tax cut would go to the non-rich, according to an analysis from the Tax Policy Center. What the piece did not do is give readers any sense of how much money is involved.

I will go out on a limb here and suggest that the vast majority of Post readers really don't have much idea of how much money $2.8 trillion is over the decade from 2019 to 2028. It is not that di...

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Published on November 17, 2018 06:46
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