Big Government Is Set for a Rerun With Biden’s Economic Plan

  • Spending, tax plans follow four decades of ‘supply side’ ideas
  • Shift sparks debate over whether economy will surge or suffer

Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 27.

Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg
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Big government is back.

Four decades after Ronald Reagan’s philosophy of lowering taxes and shrinking government took hold -- culminating in Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts -- Joe Biden is turning U.S. economic policy in the opposite direction.