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On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
So, I mean, under that line of thinking, what you do is you raise the taxes to 100 percent on high-income people, and then spend all their money on government contracts.
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Bill Flores
Republican · Texas

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Flores critiques the idea of high taxes leading to government spending on contracts.

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