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Ron Wyden: “The current income tax is broken and that the VAT is an efficient tax, and it is not necessarily a money machine.”

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
The current income tax is broken and that the VAT is an efficient tax, and it is not necessarily a money machine.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden discusses the inefficiencies of the current income tax and the benefits of a VAT.

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