The first victim of war, they say, is truth. The first victim of coronavirus, by contrast, is fiscal discipline. Yesterday, President Trump started negotiating with the Senate over a proposal to suspend payroll taxes, possibly until the end of the year. Wall Street certainly liked it: markets shot up by five percent.
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