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On the recordMarch 2, 2011
Not germane. That's the answer. A $4,460 tax increase is not germane to this debate we're having right now. What is? The $25 billion doesn't fall out of the sky, out of the air. It has to come from somewhere. It is a tax increase on the middle class. You know it. We all know it.
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Joe Crowley
Democratic · New York

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