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Steve Israel: “The gentleman said that we can afford to cut or shave budgets for anticrime programs like COPS. The gentleman did not…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2007
The gentleman said that we can afford to cut or shave budgets for anticrime programs like COPS. The gentleman did not support attempts to cut or shave the $90 billion in tax shelters that allow offshore companies to shelter their profits, open up P.O. boxes in Bermuda so that they don't have to pay their fair share of taxes. We invest a fraction of that $90 billion tax shelter, $693 million, to add 2,800 cops to the streets of neighborhoods. We want to make neighborhoods safer by adding more cops. The gentleman wants to make corporate offshore profits safer. That's a difference in priorities between our bill and theirs. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Steve Israel
New York

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Discussing budget priorities for anticrime programs versus tax shelters during a House debate.

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