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Mark Pocan: “It would cost 4 trillion over the next 10 years just to do a…”

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

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Representative Mark Pocan Town Hall in Madison January 2025

Published | Video Starts at 18:48

It's you make a new decision that rich people should pay less in taxes. So let me just get to that page. There's awful lot here. I apologize. Okay. It would cost 4 trillion over the next 10 years just to do a simple extension of the tax break that they offered last time. And don't forget the report was that if we did extend it at the end of the period of the last period, in this period, 83% of the tax break … (18:48–18:58)

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Asserts that extending the previous tax break would cost $4 trillion over the next decade.

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