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Jim McDermott: “If we lower the tax rate to 25 percent, will you stop laying off people in the United States?”

On the recordJune 1, 2011
If we lower the tax rate to 25 percent, will you stop laying off people in the United States?
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott questions if a tax cut would prevent job layoffs.

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