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Chuck Grassley: “Let me say what I think is frustrating about this whole issue of raising taxes either to spend more or to reduce the…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
Let me say what I think is frustrating about this whole issue of raising taxes either to spend more or to reduce the deficit, whatever the motive is, particularly in a time of such high unemployment we have now and the longest period of unemployment I guess since the 1930s.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley expresses frustration over raising taxes during high unemployment.

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