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On the recordOctober 3, 2017
But for those of you who want tax cuts, it is awfully difficult for me to hear the very same people who want tax cuts simultaneously ask me to have more Federal spending on their issues.
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Mike Capuano
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Capuano highlights the contradiction between wanting tax cuts and increased federal spending.

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