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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordMarch 5, 2019
There certainly can be. We had $1 trillion of deficit created because of tax decreases.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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Cohen asserts that tax increases could generate significant revenue to combat the deficit.

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