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On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
We are talking about a new world that we are trying to reform now than the one they were reforming in 1980.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

McDermott contrasts the current economic landscape with that of the 1980s regarding tax reform.

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