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Jim Inhofe: “If we have a tax on chemical companies, regardless of whether or not there is any problem with polluting and all that…”

On the recordJune 21, 2010
If we have a tax on chemical companies, regardless of whether or not there is any problem with polluting and all that, and that tax would go into the products, that would raise the, obviously raise the price of those products.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe questions the impact of a tax on chemical companies on product prices.

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