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On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
The big tax increases in the bill come nowhere close to covering the even more massive spending.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Kaine criticizes the health care law for its inadequate tax coverage of spending.

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