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Ron Wyden: “This pass-through deduction for people earning business income that is taxed at the individual level represents the very…”

On the recordApril 23, 2018
This pass-through deduction for people earning business income that is taxed at the individual level represents the very worst kind of tax policy: regressive, complex, picking winners and losers in different sectors haphazardly.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden criticizes the pass-through deduction as flawed and unfair.

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