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Bill Delahunt: “30 seconds. I will let you get back to it. But you know what? I am just looking at that, Japan at $680 billion. Japan is…”

On the recordApril 5, 2006
30 seconds. I will let you get back to it. But you know what? I am just looking at that, Japan at $680 billion. Japan is actually subsidizing partially that tax cut, or that tax refund for the extremely wealthy in this country. I mean, that is where that money is going. I wonder if that extremely wealthy taxpayer might consider taking that tax refund in yen?
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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