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Rosa DeLauro: “It isn't the tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of the people in this Nation that stimulates the economy.”

On the recordMarch 9, 2011
It isn't the tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of the people in this Nation that stimulates the economy.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Arguing that education funding is more effective for economic stimulation than tax cuts.

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