Kent Conrad actually said...

Rather than a tax increase, I think the first place we ought to look . . . is the tax gap. If we could collect this money, we'd virtually eliminate the deficit.

Context

Kent Conrad suggested focusing on the tax gap to reduce the deficit instead of increasing taxes.

03/12/2006

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