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Tom Carper: “We did it in early 1981 with tax cuts for the higher-income people; it did not work.”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2017
We did it in early 1981 with tax cuts for the higher-income people; it did not work.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper reflects on past tax cuts that failed to stimulate economic growth.

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