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Patrick Moynihan: “It would be one of the largest tax cuts in our history, and, in the process, it would put the Social Security System…”

On the recordMarch 18, 1998
It would be one of the largest tax cuts in our history, and, in the process, it would put the Social Security System into permanent actuarial balance.
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Patrick Moynihan
Illinois

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Discussing the implications of a proposed tax cut on the Social Security System.

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