On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
we went into a war in Iraq that some of us voted against, some of us voted for; that we gave huge tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country that added to the debt;
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congress.govBernie Sanders: “we went into a war in Iraq that some of us voted against, some of us voted for; that we gave huge tax breaks to the…”
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Sanders attributes the deficit to war spending and tax breaks for the wealthy.
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