Trump's tax plan that wasn't

The president' tax plan isn't really a tax plan. It's a one-pager of bullet points. There's a difference.

President Trump.
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The biggest problem with President Donald Trump's new tax plan is that he still doesn't have one. Not really.

What Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and economic adviser Gary Cohn presented Wednesday was really more of a synopsis of a summary of a sketch of some old campaign ideas, with a few (far too few) numbers thrown in.

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.