"What if I told you that a prominent global political figure in recent
months has proposed: abrogating key features of his government's
contracts with energy companies; unilaterally renegotiating his
country's international economic treaties; dramatically raising
marginal tax rates on the "rich" to levels not seen in his country in
three decades (which would make them among the highest in the world);
and changing his country's social insurance system into explicit
welfare by severing the link between taxes and benefits?"
By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN
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