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Jay Dickey: “When McDonald's can get $200,000 to advertise chicken nuggets, then I think we are taking care of employers. When AT&T…”

On the recordMay 1, 1996
When McDonald's can get $200,000 to advertise chicken nuggets, then I think we are taking care of employers. When AT&T can get $34 million, we are taking care of employers. We have not begun to talk about corporate welfare yet. This Congress wants to repeal the alternative minimum tax, build more stealth bombers, defend Americans who renounce their citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes, and yet they want to deny poor folks, working folks a 90 cent increase in the minimum wage. Now, you know, you have to be a little bit less heartless than that.
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Jay Dickey
Arkansas
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Addressing corporate welfare and minimum wage during a debate.

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