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Carl Levin: “But if that cannot be done or is not done this year, why not take the revenues from these loopholes which have no…”

On the recordMay 12, 2013
But if that cannot be done or is not done this year, why not take the revenues from these loopholes which have no economic purpose, other than tax avoidance, and take that revenue to end sequestration?
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin emphasizes the need to utilize tax loophole revenues to address sequestration.

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