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Robert C. Byrd: “We Democrats believe, as we have said from the start of this administration, that each citizen should bear his or her…”

On the recordDecember 14, 1982
We Democrats believe, as we have said from the start of this administration, that each citizen should bear his or her fair share of the tax burden. We should not ask working and middle-class Americans to bear the entire weight of putting our most hard-pressed citizens back to work.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Dec 14, 1982

Editor's note · Context

Proposing to delay a scheduled tax cut for upper-income families instead of raising the gasoline tax.

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