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Jeff Sessions: “We just had a $616 billion tax increase, averaging about $60 billion a year extra income, and we are having recovery…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2013
We just had a $616 billion tax increase, averaging about $60 billion a year extra income, and we are having recovery from the recession, the slowest in a decade but some recovery, and that results in a lower deficit, as you have reported to us.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses the impact of recent tax increases on the deficit and economic recovery.

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