“Everybody I know, and I’m not just talking about 10 or 20 people, nobody could believe we even got this far. The laws are bad.”

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On the recordJune 13, 2011
Would the Senator define what a subsidy is to him, because part of the problem with the debate is that we keep saying ``subsidies.'' We don't have subsidies--not in the Senator's State or in Oklahoma. We have accelerated depreciation, which even if you took that away, the dollars to the Federal Government would not increase. How is there a subsidy to the oil and gas industry?
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma
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Jun 13, 2011

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