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Jim DeMint: “Higher income tax rates and higher taxes on capital gains and dividends will begin in 2011.”

On the recordOctober 1, 2009
Higher income tax rates and higher taxes on capital gains and dividends will begin in 2011.
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Jim DeMint
Republican · South Carolina

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Warning about upcoming tax increases affecting business investment.

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