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Andy Barr: Tax increases are a lousy deficit reduction strategy.

On the recordMarch 5, 2013
Tax increases are a lousy deficit reduction strategy.
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Andy Barr
Republican · Kentucky

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Barr criticizes tax hikes as ineffective for reducing the deficit.

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