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Bill Clinton: I know it's popular to offer a tax cut 5 weeks before the election, say, 'We finally got a surplus; we want to give you…

On the recordSeptember 30, 1998
I know it's popular to offer a tax cut 5 weeks before the election, say, 'We finally got a surplus; we want to give you some of it.' But it's dead wrong.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at a Unity '98 Dinner

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