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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Last week we tried out doing a second shorter episode on the French election.

People liked it, so we're going to keep that up most weeks.

Though that's contingent, of course, upon listener support continuing to make that financially viable.

So thank you in advance.

My guest today is Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy.

We're going to discuss Trump's tax proposal and how Republicans only seem to care

about deficits and debt when they're trying to cut social welfare programs.

Baker is the author of Rigged how globalization and the rules of the modern economy

were structured to make the rich richer.

You can find that for free online. Dean Baker, welcome to the dig.

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