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JOHN LINDER: “My daughter at 35, she is now 37, called me and she said what in the world is AMT. She has got four little boys and the…”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2004
My daughter at 35, she is now 37, called me and she said what in the world is AMT. She has got four little boys and the deductions and a fairly decent income gets them into the AMT. When it was set in 1969, it captured 90,000 taxpayers. In 6 years, it will capture 35 million.
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JOHN LINDER
Georgia

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Discussing the impact of the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) on middle-class families.

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