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Henry Waxman: “Here we have proposals to cut the safety net out of the poor, take away the guaranteed benefit for Medicare so that…”

On the recordMay 31, 2012
Here we have proposals to cut the safety net out of the poor, take away the guaranteed benefit for Medicare so that millionaires and billionaires can have tax cuts. That makes no sense to me.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman argues against cutting benefits for the poor to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

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