Thread by @AnandWrites, A man named Art Laffer is being floated as the head of [...]

Anand Giridharadas

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A man named Art Laffer is being floated as the head of a new task force to bring the economy back.

So I’d like to remind you of the time I visited the Candyland of his mind.

Full debate, moderated by the great @mehdirhasan, here:

And task force news: https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN21Q3AT

Cut salaries, taxes to reopen U.S. economy says Laffer, conservative fave

Republican economist Art Laffer, an architect of the Reagan era tax cuts that paved the way for historic budget deficits in the United States, has a plan to rejuvenate today's pandemic-crippled...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NiK3aEZztI

I had to tell Art that the '80s called and wanted their ideas back. But he didn't take this as an insult. He's a proud '80s guy. So if you want Reaganomics as the solution to the pandemic, support Art Laffer's candidacy to run this task force. If you don't, make noise.

These are the Big Little Things we're going to have to pay attention to in this crisis. There is so much news, so much death, so much heartbreak every day that a possible head of a new task force gets buried. But this is how powerful agendas will infiltrate the recovery.

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