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Kent Conrad: “You make the taxpayer four times as worse off as you make the government better off.”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
You make the taxpayer four times as worse off as you make the government better off.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Kent Conrad argues against taxing citizens to improve government finances.

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