If you tax people into poverty, you cannot then complain that people are not becoming part of the workforce.
Michael Bennet: “If you tax people into poverty, you cannot then complain that people are not becoming part of the workforce.”
On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
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Bennet discusses the negative impact of taxing low-income workers.
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