Harry Jaffe: D.C. budget wars coming over higher taxes

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Jack Evans guided me to the corner of the budget classroom Thursday, turned me to the wall and stuck a dunce cap on my head. The veteran chairman of the city council’s finance and revenue committee said I needed a refresher course on city finances. My last column, he said, was dumb and dumber, because it mixed capital spending with operational spending.

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