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Sam Brownback: “It is strange, but actually if you look at our tax policy, people would be paid to be able to--if they do get a divorce…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1998
It is strange, but actually if you look at our tax policy, people would be paid to be able to--if they do get a divorce and live separately, they would actually have more money coming to them and less going to the Federal Treasury, which is an extraordinary, ridiculous notion that is built into the Tax Code.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas

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Discussing the implications of tax policy on divorce during a Senate floor debate.

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