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Peter DeFazio: “Well, if you don't increase taxes, we are not having an infrastructure bill and we are doing nothing.”

On the recordMarch 6, 2018
Well, if you don't increase taxes, we are not having an infrastructure bill and we are doing nothing.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio argues that without tax increases, infrastructure progress is impossible.

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