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January 1987 Issue
January 1987 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The New Shape of American Politics
    William Schneider
  • The 1929 Parallel
    John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Living With Fallout
    Mary Jo Salter
  • The January Almanac
  • Notes: Marx's Carbuncles
    Jack Beatty
  • East Asia: The Rice Plot
    James Fallows

Washington: Vat Is a Bad Idea

The deficit crisis has put a national sales tax back on the public agenda. Herewith the case against it

By Robert S. Mcintyre
January 1987 Issue
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