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Both presidential candidates plan to make changes to the tax code, but largely in opposite directions. While President Donald Trump plans further tax reductions, his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, plans to raise taxes on the rich and businesses.Both candidates are also proposing a number of tax incentives for particular behaviors.Biden would give tax breaks to those who buy electric cars, install solar panels, or make their homes more energy efficient. Further credits would go to babysitters, the elderly, and those who pay more than 30 percent of their income toward rent.Trump would expand the Opportunity Zones in...

When Herman Cain proposed his 9-9-9 plan, many conservatives became energized, despite their misgivings with the fine print of the plan.  It wasn’t so much the details of the proposal that excited the base, as most conservatives intuitively recoiled from a consumption tax; it was the boldness of the plan that resonated with them.  Cain’s 9-9-9 brought some excitement to a race that was defined by a frontrunner who offered 160 pages of banal fluff.  Nevertheless, his plan was too flawed to be utilized as a viable rallying cry in the general election.  Perry appears to have proposed both a...