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Bill Archer: “Mr. Speaker, it is fascinating to me to listen to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the minority, support…”

On the recordMay 22, 1996
Mr. Speaker, it is fascinating to me to listen to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the minority, support tax breaks for big corporations simply because they believe that the end result might benefit something that they are interested in. But let us introduce a tax rate reduction on capital gains that would create jobs for all Americans, and they rail that we are giving special preference to the big corporations and to the rich. But here they are today, emotionally supporting tax breaks for big corporations. It is a strange irony, it is almost a strange contradiction, and yet we are here witnessing it.
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Bill Archer
Texas
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Discussing tax breaks for corporations and capital gains tax reduction.

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