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Sheldon Whitehouse: “So your testimony here is that you are not assuming any growth from tax revenues as a result of increased economic…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
So your testimony here is that you are not assuming any growth from tax revenues as a result of increased economic activity in reaching the deficit neutrality.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse questions assumptions about tax revenue growth affecting deficit neutrality.

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