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'Hot potato' shows why workers won't benefit from Trump's corporate tax cut

  • Written by Steven Pressman, Professor of Economics, Colorado State University
imageWho will be left holding the potato? Nobuhiro Asada/Shutterstock.com

Many children have played hot potato, a game in which they pass a spud to other children quickly so they don’t get stuck with it when the music stops.

Taxes are like that potato. No one likes paying them; everyone tries to pass them to others. The game of hot potato sheds...

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