With less than a month to go before the US election, the costs of the presidential candidates’ platforms are being totted up – and it’s not pretty reading.

On Monday, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) released its estimates of the impact of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’ campaign plans on the US debt and deficits and the progressive Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) issued its analysis of the distributional effects of Trump’s tax proposals.

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