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Kent Conrad: “Why don't you go back to the Bush years when revenues were up to 18.9 percent of GDP?”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
Why don't you go back to the Bush years when revenues were up to 18.9 percent of GDP?
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Kent Conrad questions the rationale for reverting to lower revenue levels from the 1990s.

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