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Paul Tonko: I would just say: Let's do this with our eyes wide open. Trickle-down isn't going to happen. Tax reform, this is not tax…

On the recordNovember 14, 2017
I would just say: Let's do this with our eyes wide open. Trickle-down isn't going to happen. Tax reform, this is not tax reform. Certainly, tax cuts where you aid the upper-income strata and corporations at the expense of an increase of taxes to the middle class is what this is about. It is pathetic. It is devastating. It is disastrous, and it ought to be denied.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York
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Nov 14, 2017

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