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On the recordApril 28, 2014
Now let me go back to Mr. Porter. Picking up on a theme that was raised earlier, tax revenue pays in part for police protection; correct?
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries links tax revenue to funding for police protection.

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