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Kent Conrad: “If you have a flat tax that generates the same amount of revenue, it is a mathematical certainty that people at the top…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
If you have a flat tax that generates the same amount of revenue, it is a mathematical certainty that people at the top pay less and people at the bottom are going to pay more.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Conrad critiques the regressive nature of flat tax proposals.

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