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Cory Booker: “88 [of our biggest corporations] last year pay no taxes.”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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It's why I don't take corporate PAC money. It's why I don't take issue area PAC money. We need to start talking about why billionaires and the biggest corporations. We had 88 [of our biggest corporations] last year pay no taxes. of our biggest corporation while firefighters or military people serving right now are paying a higher effective tax rate. The system is rigged. (06:00–06:03)

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