Ron Wyden actually said...

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.

Context

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

02/12/2013

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