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Ron Wyden: “The tax debate misses the point because both of those approaches, George W. Bush and now what has been offered by…”

On the recordAugust 2, 2010
The tax debate misses the point because both of those approaches, George W. Bush and now what has been offered by President Obama, in my view, involve tinkering with a badly flawed, discredited tax system.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden critiques both Bush and Obama's tax policies as ineffective.

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