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Tom Carper: “Should we continue to cut the budget for the IRS? We cut it by 20 percent. Should we continue to cut it, knowing that…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2017
Should we continue to cut the budget for the IRS? We cut it by 20 percent. Should we continue to cut it, knowing that for every dollar we cut, we lose four or five bucks?
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper questions the logic of further IRS budget cuts given revenue loss.

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