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New York Times Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails

New York Times Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails

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Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pennsylvania in October of 2016. So it was particularly dismaying to read Appelbaum's dispatch earlier this month in the Times, under the headline "Trump Tax Plan Will Not Bolster Growth, Economists Say."

Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pennsylvania in October of 2016. So it was particularly dismaying to read Appelbaum's dispatch earlier this month in the Times, under the headline "Trump Tax Plan Will Not Bolster Growth, Economists Say."…