09/07/1989
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"This provision raises $36 billion over 8 years, largely on the backs of low and middle-class income families."
"The hidden tax is back."
"The president's senior advisors would recommend that he veto the 'Ways and Means Democratic Alternative' if it were presented to him for his signature."
"This election is going to decide whether Michigan chooses the bankrupt policies of tax and spend or, on the other hand, whether it chooses Republican policies that put Michiganers back to work."