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Ron Wyden: “Tax-exempt financing ought to be about general obligation bonds. It ought to be about the needs of the States to finance…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
Tax-exempt financing ought to be about general obligation bonds. It ought to be about the needs of the States to finance infrastructure and the like, and this is a terrible distortion.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden criticizes the misuse of tax-exempt financing for private interests instead of public infrastructure.

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