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On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
it is, I think, patently unfair to people who have all of their income exposed to taxation at whatever level of income, to have some who are avoiding everything that they owe through these kinds of tax dodges.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Conrad highlights the unfairness of tax avoidance by some corporations.

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