What I hope people will remember when they hear people say, the government should not pick winners and losers, is that we already have a tax code that is full of that, full of decisions that have been made about winners and losers.
Michael Bennet: “What I hope people will remember when they hear people say, the government should not pick winners and losers, is that…”
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Bennet emphasizes the existing biases in the tax code regarding winners and losers.
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