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On the recordMay 17, 2017
What concerns me is that it seems to me that you are very sure about where you want to cut taxes and you are very vague about how you want to generate the revenue to make up for those tax cuts.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Schatz expresses concern over tax cuts benefiting the wealthy without clear revenue generation plans.

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