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Jason Smith: “This is a war on rural Americans. It is a war on the middle class.”

On the recordFebruary 2, 2015
This is a war on rural Americans. It is a war on the middle class.
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Jason Smith
Republican · Missouri

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Smith criticizes estate tax policies harming rural farmers and the middle class.

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