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Ed Markey: What do you call tax breaks for 100 years for the oil industry, the gas industry and the coal industry, dipping into the…

On the recordSeptember 3, 2020
What do you call tax breaks for 100 years for the oil industry, the gas industry and the coal industry, dipping into the pockets of all of the taxpayers in our country? And it looks to me like it's socialism.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts
Source
msnbc.com

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Markey argues that tax breaks for fossil fuel industries are a form of socialism.

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