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Mike Thompson: The death tax is an immoral tax. And it is an attack on the American Dream.

On the recordMarch 17, 2015
The death tax is an immoral tax. And it is an attack on the American Dream.
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Mike Thompson
Democratic · California

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Thompson criticizes the death tax as harmful to the American Dream.

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