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Sherrod Brown: “I notice, reading through the amendment, it gives a special exemption for oil. Everybody is subject to this special tax…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1996
I notice, reading through the amendment, it gives a special exemption for oil. Everybody is subject to this special tax except the oil companies. Why was the decision made? What is the reasoning for giving the special treatment to oil?
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Questioning a tax amendment that exempts oil companies from a special tax.

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