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Howard Berman: “I guess if the gentleman from Wisconsin had offered an amendment saying that everyone who owns a restaurant gets to…”

On the recordMarch 25, 1998
I guess if the gentleman from Wisconsin had offered an amendment saying that everyone who owns a restaurant gets to deduct 50 percent of their lease price, the gentleman from Indiana would say, in a Republican-controlled Congress, we have to support that amendment; otherwise, we will have an unnecessary tax increase on the patrons of that restaurant.
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Howard Berman
California

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Discussing tax deductions for restaurant owners during a debate.

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