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Bart Stupak: “$450 for each taxpayer. It is three times greater for corporate welfare than it is for individuals. And you mentioned…”

On the recordApril 3, 1995
$450 for each taxpayer. It is three times greater for corporate welfare than it is for individuals. And you mentioned student loans, which is part of this tax bill. The student loans, my university, Northern Michigan University, University of Northern Michigan, their tuition has gone up this year alone. It is proposed to go up 15 percent. Where are they going to get the money? But yet we are going to let the corporations not pay any taxes. And that money to help out with our direct student loan, the interest on the loan, the Stafford grants----
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Bart Stupak

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Discussing the impact of tax policy on students and corporate welfare.

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