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Steve Pearce: “I would point out that one similarity, that we are willing to treat them similar with for-profit businesses is reach…”

On the recordMay 17, 2007
I would point out that one similarity, that we are willing to treat them similar with for-profit businesses is reach down and extract profits away from them in the way that we're going to do under the Hard Rock Mining Act, and the way we are going to do under H.R. 6. And then these three assistances, and I suspect more instances than this, we are actually fulfilling a promise of the left to take the profits of large companies and spend it. And that to me is an abomination in this free enterprise society.
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Steve Pearce
New Mexico

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Discussing the implications of the Hard Rock Mining Act and H.R. 6 on profits of large companies.

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