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Brian Higgins: Did every American household receive $4 to $9,000 increase in household income that the White House Council of Economic…

On the recordNovember 19, 2019
Did every American household receive $4 to $9,000 increase in household income that the White House Council of Economic Advisors explicitly said would occur, and on a recurring basis, because of the tax cut? Absolutely, it did not.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Higgins states that the promised income increase from the tax cut did not happen.

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