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Mark Kelly: I remember when we were doing Opportunity Zones and one of the complaints was, you were only concerned about the wealthy…

On the recordMay 19, 2024
I remember when we were doing Opportunity Zones and one of the complaints was, you were only concerned about the wealthy people. And my answer to that was, well, they have the money to invest using the core tax dollars to invest where nobody else would invest, because it didn't look like a promising thing.
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Mark Kelly
Democratic · Arizona

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Defends Opportunity Zones as a means to attract investment in neglected areas.

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