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Hillary Clinton: “When I'm president, we're going to take those back from people making more than $250,000 a year in America.”

On the recordApril 3, 2008
When I'm president, we're going to take those back from people making more than $250,000 a year in America.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

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Hillary Clinton discusses her plan to roll back tax cuts for the wealthy.

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