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Dick Durbin: “Tell me why you think our Constitution should protect, by requiring a higher vote to reduce it, this tax expenditure…”

On the recordNovember 29, 2011
Tell me why you think our Constitution should protect, by requiring a higher vote to reduce it, this tax expenditure, this tax credit for child care for wealthy people but not protect the appropriation needed to provide child care for people of limited means?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin challenges the unequal protection of tax credits for wealthy versus appropriations for low-income families.

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