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Jim Risch: The federal tax code is meant to raise sufficient money to do the limited things that the Founding Fathers thought that…

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
The federal tax code is meant to raise sufficient money to do the limited things that the Founding Fathers thought that a Federal Government should do.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch criticizes the tax code's shift from its original purpose to social engineering.

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