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Chris Murphy: “I think it was a pretty simple formula. It was that we were going to squeeze and squeeze the people who have the least…”

On the recordJune 20, 2007
I think it was a pretty simple formula. It was that we were going to squeeze and squeeze the people who have the least in this society, and that is the hospitals that care for the sick and the uninsured, it is the families that have the courage to send their loved ones off to war, it is middle-class families who can't afford to pay another dime. Those are the people that are going to get soaked in order to fund these giant tax cuts for the people.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Addressing the impact of tax cuts on vulnerable populations.

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