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Patty Murray: “We have to abandon our nostalgia for the Tax Reform Act of 1986.”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
We have to abandon our nostalgia for the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Murray critiques the outdated views on past tax reforms.

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