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On the recordJune 11, 2012
I just do not understand how extracting oil from the ground is manufacturing, because that would make everybody who owns a well with water a water company that should be subject to getting the same deduction.
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Bob Menendez Jr.
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez questions the classification of oil extraction as manufacturing for tax purposes.

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