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Byron Dorgan: let me ask a more specific question. I think the Senator said: I don't know what we should replace this with. I think…

On the recordJuly 28, 1998
let me ask a more specific question. I think the Senator said: I don't know what we should replace this with. I think that was the answer. Let me ask a more specific question. If, in fact, one of the alternatives would be a national sales tax--and certainly that is one of the alternatives--and if it would require about a 30-percent tax rate, as it would according to studies, would the Senator believe that that is an inappropriate replacement for the current Tax Code?
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Questioning the appropriateness of a national sales tax as an alternative to the current Tax Code.

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