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Gwen Moore: “A person can pay, can give seventeen hundred dollars to one…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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Moore to Host Press Conference Introducing Legislation to Repeal National Voucher Scheme

Published | Video Starts at 09:29

… our last meeting, I queried him that this seventeen hundred dollar, dollar for dollar tax credit doesn't exist anywhere else for anything else in our tax code. That means that A person can pay, can give seventeen hundred dollars to one of these, a voucher, whatever you call them. And dollar for dollar, they can reduce their liability for paying taxes. I mean that if that, that no skin in the game whatsoever. They just get. They can put it in and not pay any price for it. (09:29–09:47)

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Asserts that individuals can reduce tax liability dollar-for-dollar by contributing $1,700 to a voucher program.

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