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Mike Crapo: “I agree with that. I think that we would have been hard-pressed to create a tax code, if we tried, that was more unfair…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
I agree with that. I think that we would have been hard-pressed to create a tax code, if we tried, that was more unfair, more complex, more expensive to comply with, and frankly more anti-competitive to our own business interests, than we have now.
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Mike Crapo
Republican · Idaho

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Mike Crapo critiques the current tax code's unfairness and complexity.

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