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Janice Schakowsky: “Walmart supported the tax bill and claimed it would help workers, but it is not clear how much of that $2.2 billion in…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2018
Walmart supported the tax bill and claimed it would help workers, but it is not clear how much of that $2.2 billion in annual tax cuts actually helped its more than 1.4 million Americans.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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Schakowsky discusses Walmart's tax cuts versus its stock buyback strategy.

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