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Tim Scott: “The taxpayers are the ones that are losing the elasticity in their paychecks...”

On the recordJuly 30, 2018
The taxpayers are the ones that are losing the elasticity in their paychecks...
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Scott discusses the financial burden of government spending on taxpayers.

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