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Fix the Health Care System: Raise Taxes

By Matt Miller | March 28, 2007

John Edwards says we need to raise taxes to fix health care, and you can bet that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will eventually say so too. Their red-blooded Republican foes will counter that raising taxes is always and everywhere evil, because it hurts the economy.

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This article was originally published in Fortune.

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