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Mick Mulvaney: “If we could tax our way to growth and if we could tax our way to prosperity, every government in the world would have…”

On the recordMay 23, 2017
If we could tax our way to growth and if we could tax our way to prosperity, every government in the world would have done it a long time ago.
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Mick Mulvaney
Republican · South Carolina

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Mulvaney argues that taxation alone cannot drive economic growth.

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