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On the recordNovember 26, 2017
It's not a matter of their taxes actually going up, it's a matter if they didn't actually take in the subsidies and so they count that in the strange way as actually removing taxes.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford explains how the CBO's assessment of tax impacts is misleading.

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