Well, Trump raised taxes on the rich, and why do we fund NPR? We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always, by the right Honorable Charles C.W.

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If you don't like what you hear here, please forget I said anything. So Phil Klein, we had a leak to Axios from

someone in the White House saying that the administration is thinking about the way to avoid the

political problem of cutting taxes on the rich via maintaining Trump's tax cuts from his first time around, making them permanent.

At the same time, you're cutting Medicaid, would be to actually let tax rates increase on the rich.

And you had a senator, a Republican senator out there saying, yeah, maybe

this is something we should think about. Otherwise, the idea is getting completely panned,

including by the leadership of the House. What do you make of it? Well, I mean, I think that

both politically and economically it would be a terrible idea.

We have an editorial out today on the site that goes into this a bit deeper,

but economically raising the top marginal rates on, and which will not only affect individuals, but

those who are small business owners filing as individuals would be an anti-growth move.

Maybe you would do it if it were part of some sort of genuine earnest

move to reform entitlements. But in this case, we're talking about maybe using the money for

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