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Lamar Alexander: “If we pass this bill and they're allowed to act that it will eliminate for the foreseeable future the possibility that…”

On the recordJuly 31, 2012
If we pass this bill and they're allowed to act that it will eliminate for the foreseeable future the possibility that Tennessee will ever have to have a state income tax
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander argues that the bill will prevent a state income tax in Tennessee.

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