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Ron Wyden: “Yes, the fortunate few would benefit under the House bill. There is no question about it. To give my colleagues an idea…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2017
Yes, the fortunate few would benefit under the House bill. There is no question about it. To give my colleagues an idea of how regressive those efforts are, they would actually be retroactive. So this idea that these tax cuts for the well-to-do were in some way going to create jobs is just absurd. They are made retroactive. So they aren't going to be creating jobs going forward.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon
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Jul 26, 2017

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