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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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Editor's note · Context

Yarmuth questions the fairness of tax burdens on the wealthy.

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