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Tim Kaine: “The idea of defunding the IRS as a pay for, or an offset is just so fundamentally backwards”

On the recordNovember 8, 2023
The idea of defunding the IRS as a pay for, or an offset is just so fundamentally backwards
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Kaine criticizes the notion of defunding the IRS as counterproductive to revenue generation.

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