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4-10-14

Our One-Sided Arguments About Taxes (Interview)

by Nancy MacLean

Related Link: The 2014 OAH Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything

Nancy MacLean teaches history at Duke University. At the 2014 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians she spoke with HNN about the one-sided arguments we have in this country about taxes and why liberals keep losing the argument.