Summary: <p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">There's a reason economists don't run for president.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">We assembled five prominent economists from across the political spectrum. We gave them a simple task: Identify major economic policies they could all stand behind.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">They did. They gave us five tax proposals — plus one change to the criminal code — that every one of them could support wholeheartedly, from left to right.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">And in the process, they gave us an economic platform that would surely sink any candidate that supported it.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">On today's show: The Planet Money economic platform. Backed by the brightest minds in modern economics. Pure poison to any politician that embraces it.</p>
