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On the recordJuly 10, 2018
What values do we have as a society when we passed within the last year a tax cut where 80 percent of that tax cut will go to the wealthiest 1 percent, but we cannot afford to do this?
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Questions societal priorities regarding tax cuts favoring the wealthy over social security expansion.

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