I have been waiting for six months for a jobs bill, and they keep saying if we lower the tax rate to the corporations, somehow we will get jobs in this country.
Jim McDermott: “I have been waiting for six months for a jobs bill, and they keep saying if we lower the tax rate to the corporations…”
On the recordJune 1, 2011
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McDermott expresses frustration over delays in job creation linked to tax rate cuts.
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