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John Yarmuth: “If you are not going to raise revenues by allowing the effective tax rates to rise modestly for the top 2 percent of…”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2012
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?
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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Yarmuth questions the fairness of tax burdens on the wealthy.

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