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Charles Rangel: Just on what you were talking about, the tax policy, and knowing that the top 1 percent of the wage earners, or the…

On the recordMarch 9, 2011
Just on what you were talking about, the tax policy, and knowing that the top 1 percent of the wage earners, or the income people, in this country own 40 percent of the Nation's wealth. The President of the United States has to go to the United States Chamber of Commerce and remind them of the hundreds of billions of dollars that taxpayers have given to them so that they will be able to survive. Yet they won't take a gamble with their country in terms of helping us in partnerships to create the jobs that we need so badly. If we cleaned up the Tax Code, we could find so much that we could reduce the rates and make certain the incentives that we have would be to encourage people to invest in the good USA. So let me thank you so much for the contribution you're making. To me, anyone watching this ought to throw away Republican and Democrat ideas and try to find out what's good for our great country.
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Charles Rangel
Democratic · New York
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Mar 9, 2011

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Rangel discusses tax policy and wealth distribution in the U.S.

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