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Tom Coburn: “I would just summarize by saying that we should recognize what corporate welfare is. Everybody talks that word.…”

On the recordAugust 4, 1998
I would just summarize by saying that we should recognize what corporate welfare is. Everybody talks that word. Everybody says it. But now it is time to vote. It is time to take the money away from the richest corporations in this country and let them stand on their own two feet. It is called competition. It is called allowing them to use their own insight and own assets to compete in the world.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Addressing corporate welfare and advocating for competition among corporations.

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