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Xavier Becerra: “Reclaiming my time, they are taxing graduate students and they are collecting $430 million in taxes as a result of doing…”

On the recordJune 26, 1997
Reclaiming my time, they are taxing graduate students and they are collecting $430 million in taxes as a result of doing that, and at the same time they are giving corporations a tax windfall and not asking them to pay any taxes. Does that seem fair?
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Xavier Becerra
Democratic · California

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Discussing tax policies affecting graduate students and corporations.

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