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Bill Pascrell: “To those Members concerned with tax fairness: today, wealth concentrated with the top 1 percent is at the same level as…”

On the recordAugust 1, 2012
To those Members concerned with tax fairness: today, wealth concentrated with the top 1 percent is at the same level as the period immediately preceding the Great Depression. So you shrunk the middle class with your great economic ideas between 2001 and 2008, and what you did was made the rich richer. I salute you if that's what you think America is about. We are all job creators, not just the rich.
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Bill Pascrell
Democratic · New Jersey
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Aug 1, 2012

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