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On the recordDecember 4, 2017
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the chairman of the committee says: Come together. You have done it alone. You have snubbed your nose at the American people as well as the process of this institution. The GOP tax bill combines the Republicans' long-term faith in trickle-down economics with a new, brazen disregard for the facts that have become the hallmark of the Trump Presidency. This bill is mostly about cutting taxes for the very wealthy, not the middle class. Making the very wealthy even richer is not the path to broad-based economic prosperity and growth. Tax cuts for the very top do not pay for themselves; instead, they increase the debt. These are the facts that have been presented by the Joint Committee on Taxation, and so many others have called the Republican bill a boondoggle and delusional. Republicans say the facts be damned as they rush this legislation out of desperation, not deliberation
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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