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Ray LaHood: “The idea that one government establishes a tax and says the hell with everybody else is not right.”

On the recordJune 5, 2012
The idea that one government establishes a tax and says the hell with everybody else is not right.
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Ray LaHood
Republican · Illinois

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LaHood criticizes unilateral tax measures by any single government.

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