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Byron Dorgan: So it is not that we are not passing a tax cut for everyone, we are passing a tax cut for every person in America. We…

On the recordDecember 4, 2010
So it is not that we are not passing a tax cut for everyone, we are passing a tax cut for every person in America. We are just saying, maybe on that second million, we might ought to take that $300 billion and put it in deficit reduction. So it is not the first million, it is the second million and the third million and the fourth million and the fifth million that you would have to go back to a rate that we had in the days when we had massive job creation, and these guys did well.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota
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Dec 4, 2010

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The speaker discusses tax cuts and their implications for deficit reduction.

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