On the recordMay 10, 2021
I am on the Budget Committee where we look at 10-year increments, and your testimony that there is a 10-year increment out there of taxes owed but not paid of $7.5 trillion is pretty stunning.
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Whitehouse comments on the staggering amount of unpaid taxes over a decade.
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