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On the recordJune 12, 2013
if we create a Tax Code that is so complicated that drives them offshore and then say, these are bad folks, they are not patriots, they are willing to take their business offshore--it is not that they are unpatriotic, it is just that they are not stupid.
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Mark Kelly
Democratic · Arizona

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Kelly argues that a complicated tax code pushes businesses offshore.

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