Sheldon Whitehouse: “Are we condemned to a race to the bottom in which corporations end up…”

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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Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse questions the sustainability of decreasing corporate tax contributions.

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