Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax won't hurt economic growth

Why you should be skeptical of studies that say otherwise

Elizabeth Warren.
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Critics have assailed Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) proposed wealth tax as an anti-American assault on economic dynamism that would hurt growth. This week, they seemed to get a boost from The New York Times, which reported that the first independent analysis of Warren's tax found it would indeed slow investment.

Or did it?

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.