There’s no defending the CNBC team that conducted the Republican debate in Boulder Wednesday night. Many of their questions were biased and argumentative, and sometimes veered far afield from the economic topics that were to be the debate’s focus.

But when it comes to one particular issue — a hotly-disputed question from CNBC’s John Harwood to Marco Rubio on Rubio’s tax plan — the critics are wrong.

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