4 surprisingly good tax reforms that Trump is considering

Eliminate the payroll tax? Make carbon emitters pay up? Yes, please!

The Trump administration may be considered including a carbon tax in their tax reform plan.
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It sounds like the Trump administration is going back to the drawing board on tax reform.

After the stinging defeat of the ObamaCare repeal effort, the White House is taking a more active role in reshaping tax policy, rather than leaving the design to Congress, The Associated Press reports. But President Trump himself has few firm opinions on matters of policy. That reality has opened up the dealmaking process to a host of oddball possibilities.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.