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Bart Stupak: “I just had a question, Mr. Speaker. In your statement you indicated that the person would be better off under your tax…”

On the recordApril 3, 1995
I just had a question, Mr. Speaker. In your statement you indicated that the person would be better off under your tax plan because he would have more money in his pocket. Yet how do you justify the gentleman with the lunch bucket paying Federal taxes, and yet your tax bill repealed the alternative minimum corporate tax, so the corporations do not have to pay their taxes? How would that help the gentleman with the lunch bucket?
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Bart Stupak

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Questioning the fairness of a tax plan during a House debate.

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