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David Price: Eleven cents. Eleven cents. That is the stimulus you get for every dollar of lost revenue. So there must be some other…

On the recordSeptember 16, 2003
Eleven cents. Eleven cents. That is the stimulus you get for every dollar of lost revenue. So there must be some other reason, do you not think, for that tax cut on dividends and for those tax cuts on the wealthiest people in this country. For people making over $1 million, tax cuts that average about $88,000 a year, and yet that money is largely not going to be used as an economic stimulus.
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David Price
Democratic · North Carolina

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Discussing the impact of tax cuts on economic stimulus during a floor speech.

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