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On the recordMarch 9, 2011
Tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Americans were a bill of goods sold to us on the promise that they would create jobs, but even before the financial meltdown, they failed, at a cost of trillions of dollars.
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Condemnation of tax cuts for the wealthy and their failure to create jobs.

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