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Mark Pocan: “A tax break is a tax expenditure. It's money that's not…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 11:10

We need to do that to make sure that they're not. Because if they do a giant tax break, if I can just. This is my geeky rant. A tax break is a tax expenditure. It's money that's not going towards health care or education or veterans. It's just going to go to rich people so that they can pay less in taxes. And that's not what they promised us. They promised us lower costs and a whole lot of other things. (11:10–11:17)

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Asserts that tax breaks divert money from health care, education, or veterans.

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