if you are not going to raise revenues by allowing the effective tax rates to rise modestly for the top 2 percent of Americans, who are you going to ask to pay more taxes, or whose benefits are you going to cut?
Yarmuth questions the fairness of tax burdens on the wealthy.
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Yes, Lawrence, thanks for having me on. I do believe it is possible. As you mentioned, the proposals now for the billionaire's tax are pretty complex. I think we can come to conceptual agreement, but, you know, what I prefer to think of is…
Every single Republican unanimously just voted to shut the government down and default on U.S. debt.
I say that as a son who had a chance to watch his father pass away in my home and cared for him and my mother for four years while I was living in Sacramento.
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