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Ben Ray Luján: “So every year someone making $1 million gets about $51,000 from that tax cut in 2017.”

On the recordMarch 24, 2021
So every year someone making $1 million gets about $51,000 from that tax cut in 2017.
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Ben Ray Luján
Democratic · New Mexico

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Lujan discusses the annual benefits of the 2017 tax cuts for high earners.

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