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Max Baucus: [Americans] are going to great lengths, thousands of miles to other countries, to avoid paying their fair share. In a…

On the recordDecember 31, 1994
[Americans] are going to great lengths, thousands of miles to other countries, to avoid paying their fair share. In a metaphorical sense, burning the flag, giving up what should be their most sacred possession, their American citizenship, to find a tax loophole. . . . These are precisely the sort of greedy, unpatriotic people that FDR called malefactors of great wealth. . . .
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Max Baucus
Democratic · Montana

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Baucus criticized Americans avoiding taxes by renouncing citizenship.

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