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Mark Kelly: “The real fear is not that you are going to pay too much; it is that you are going to make a mistake, and somehow you are…”

On the recordJune 12, 2013
The real fear is not that you are going to pay too much; it is that you are going to make a mistake, and somehow you are going to come under greater scrutiny.
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Mark Kelly
Democratic · Arizona

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Kelly highlights the fear of making mistakes in a complicated tax system.

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