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Mike Levin: “It's interesting to listen to the minority. They don't defend this tax loophole. No one has gotten up and said people…”

On the recordDecember 19, 2007
It's interesting to listen to the minority. They don't defend this tax loophole. No one has gotten up and said people who should pay their taxes aren't paying those taxes and so it's okay. That's really what you're saying. You're saying it's a tax increase when you go after people who should be paying their taxes. It's absurd. It's carrying a political label to an absurd level, and unbelievable. I suppose if we give more money for the collection of taxes for people who owe them who don't move offshore, that's also a tax increase? You're hiding behind a label. What you're doing is saying, once again, when there's a hole of debt, dig it deeper. This has become the theater of the absurd.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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Criticizing the minority's stance on tax loopholes and tax collection during a floor debate.

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