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Edward Markey: “In addition to the taxes, $2 billion a day of upwards of $25…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 19:10

And it's a tax, it's a tax on every consumer, every time they, they fill up their tank of gasoline or their tank of home heating oil. In addition to the taxes, $2 billion a day of upwards of $25 billion in taxpayer dollars, which have already been spent on the military operation as well. So this is, without question, ongoing escalating economic disaster that is going to ripple right down into the lives of ordinary families. They're going to see it at the pump. (19:10–19:27)

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