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Ron Wyden: “The information in the ProPublica report depicts a tax system in which the wealthiest people in the Nation pay…”

On the recordJune 15, 2021
The information in the ProPublica report depicts a tax system in which the wealthiest people in the Nation pay rock-bottom tax rates, sometimes zero.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden highlights unfair tax rates for the wealthy revealed in a ProPublica report.

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