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Tom Coburn: “It will be a benefit but not to the extent a direct tax credit to them would be. Right now the average American, if you…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 2007
It will be a benefit but not to the extent a direct tax credit to them would be. Right now the average American, if you are in the upper income scale, gets $2,700 worth of tax benefit from our income tax code. And if you are on the lower scale, you get $103 worth of tax benefit.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Discussing tax benefits for different income levels.

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