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Jim Risch: the federal tax code, as long as it continues to be used as a social engineering tool, is going to be the mess that it…

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
the federal tax code, as long as it continues to be used as a social engineering tool, is going to be the mess that it is today
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch criticizes the tax code's use for social engineering.

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