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Jim Risch: If you tax people who are at the upper end of the spectrum, can they afford it? Absolutely they can afford it.

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
If you tax people who are at the upper end of the spectrum, can they afford it? Absolutely they can afford it.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch argues that wealthy individuals can afford higher taxes.

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