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Bill Clinton: “The tax burden is the way it is because we seek to reverse what happened in the 1980's, where taxes went up on the…”

On the recordJuly 25, 1993
The tax burden is the way it is because we seek to reverse what happened in the 1980's, where taxes went up on the middle class and down on the wealthiest Americans.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the Conference on the Future of the American Workplace in Chicago, Illinois

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