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Mike Thompson: “It has no net benefit to the economy, but we ended up with this much larger budget deficit and higher debt load.”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2019
It has no net benefit to the economy, but we ended up with this much larger budget deficit and higher debt load.
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Mike Thompson
Democratic · California

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Claiming the tax cuts did not benefit the economy overall.

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