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On the recordApril 2, 2025
reserving the right to object, I said in response to the last unanimous consent request that this was a day to attack the President's tariffs, and this unanimous consent request continues that trend. But, ironically, this one adds in an attack on the tax bill that President Trump and we on the Republican side are fighting to enact. And, once again, we see the politics of fear playing out, saying to Americans that you are going to have all kinds of dire things happen to you so that we can cut taxes for the wealthy. This is a standard attack that has been used for over a decade, and it is no truer today than it has been. The reality is--and I think most Americans are starting to understand this--that the very tax bill that we put into place 10 years ago, which gave us the strongest economy we have had in years; reduced the deficit dramatically; helped us to create more jobs than we have historically seen, particularly for lower income individuals; and made a capital formation explosion in the United States, stopping all of those large companies from moving their assets out of the United States and moving their jobs out of the United States and made America once again the place where capital is, where America is the place where people come from the world to form capital. If we do not extend that tax law, there will be a $4.3 trillion tax hike. I am going to say that again: a $4.3 trillion tax increase on all Americans.…
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Mike Crapo
Republican · Idaho
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Apr 2, 2025

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