Don’t raise taxes alongside interest rate hikes

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After spending the last year promoting policies that have produced the highest inflation in 40 years, Democratic lawmakers are proposing policies that risk pushing the economy into a recession.

Just as the Federal Reserve is set to begin raising interest rates to curb inflation, congressional Democrats propose higher tax rates on businesses and workers. As economic history shows, raising taxes while the Fed is raising interest rates would be an enormous economic policy mistake.

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