Okay, so I'm against the tax cut deal, but I don't understand this either:
Why the payroll tax? If I had to guess which components would be unpopular, that's not the one I would have guessed.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.