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John Thune: “You go across the board in my State of South Dakota, because we are basically small businesses, farmers, ranchers, and…”

On the recordApril 21, 1998
You go across the board in my State of South Dakota, because we are basically small businesses, farmers, ranchers, and you look at the death tax and rolling that back and the capital gains tax and rolling that back and the family credit and Hope scholarship, all of these things were done with an eye toward allowing working families to have more control over their own future.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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Discussing tax reforms and their benefits for families in South Dakota.

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