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Former President Donald Trump’s economic agenda, particularly his proposal to replace income taxes with massive tariffs on foreign goods, has been widely criticized by economists as deeply inflationary and a tax cut for the rich. But it’s worse than that, wrote Peter Coy for The New York Times — his plans are about taking the federal government down an authoritarian path. At the debate on Tuesday, wrote Coy, Trump added “fresh details to an economic agenda that would concentrate more power in the hands of the president.” In doing so, Trump put “more distance between himself and traditional sma…

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