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On the recordMarch 15, 2023
The number you used of an eight percent tax rate for the 400 biggest tax filers... means that those super-wealthy tax filers are paying lower tax rates than their limo drivers.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse highlights the unfair tax rates of the wealthiest individuals.

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