Ira Stoll: Tax Fight on Right Turns Nasty

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Credit: C-Span

The hottest fight on the center-right idea scene at the moment is over tax policy for Republicans in the years ahead. As Ira Stoll explains, the fight pits so-called reform conservatism, which advocates a larger child tax credit and other policies aimed at the middle class, against the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, which describes the reformers' agenda as "a capitulation to the left's inequality and middle-class talking points."