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Melvin Watt: You can't both spend and keep taxes low without increasing deficits.

On the recordJuly 17, 2012
You can't both spend and keep taxes low without increasing deficits.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Watt highlights the conflict between spending and tax policies.

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