I do think it is important to just register that we have choices about where we focus, whether it is on the working poor, trying to lift themselves up to get out of poverty into the middle class, or whether it is businesses shipping jobs overseas using tax loopholes where we have lost middle-class jobs, which is very much where I would like to see us focusing our efforts.
Debbie Stabenow: “I do think it is important to just register that we have choices about where we focus, whether it is on the working…”
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Stabenow emphasizes the need to focus on tax compliance and job preservation over targeting the working poor.
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