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Patrick Kennedy: is the gentleman saying that the top 5 percent get four times the tax cut as the bottom 60 percent?

On the recordJuly 30, 1997
is the gentleman saying that the top 5 percent get four times the tax cut as the bottom 60 percent?
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Patrick Kennedy
Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Questioning tax cut distribution during a debate.

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