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John Thune: “$2.6 trillion of this tax hike [Democrats are supporting]…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Senator John Thune Advocates for Extending Tax Cuts and Medicaid Reforms

Published | Video Starts at 02:35

Now, who are those people? Mr. President, it's people, it's families making less than $400,000 a year on whom the bulk of this would fall. $2.6 trillion of this tax hike [Democrats are supporting] would hit families making less than $400,000 a year. It would hit small businesses to the tune of $600 billion in tax increases. These are pass through businesses, the businesses who are out there creating the jobs every day. (02:35–02:46)

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Asserts that a proposed tax hike would impact families earning less than $400,000 annually by $2.6 trillion.

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