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Mark Neumann: “Would you like to know how much more an American family of four would have had to pay in taxes over the last 15 years in…”

On the recordMarch 6, 1996
Would you like to know how much more an American family of four would have had to pay in taxes over the last 15 years in taxes in order to pay their share of what the Government spent? If the Government were to break even over the last 15 to 20 years, an average family of four in America would have had to spend or pay to the Federal Government $76,000 more in taxes over that period of time if our generation had paid for what they bought through this.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin
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Discussing the tax burden on American families in relation to government spending.

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