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On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
Are we condemned to a race to the bottom in which corporations end up paying essentially no share of our national revenues?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse questions the sustainability of decreasing corporate tax contributions.

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