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Ron Wyden: “Why would one think that the tax policies that produced anemic job growth and declining real income for the middle…”

On the recordAugust 2, 2010
Why would one think that the tax policies that produced anemic job growth and declining real income for the middle class... would create substantially more jobs and substantially more income in the pockets of middle class folks?
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Questioning the effectiveness of past tax policies on job growth and middle-class income.

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