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Mark Pocan: “The tax cut that Donald Trump did, 83% of the money went to…”

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

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The Stephanie Miller Show | U.S. Rep Mark Pocan on the Presidential Debate

Published | Video Starts at 04:41

But just on the taxes, the tax cut that Donald Trump did, any time you have a tax cut, it's called the tax expenditure. It's taking away money from education or health care or anything else. The tax cut that Donald Trump did, 83% of the money went to the top 1% of the population. In other words, his friends, his donors, people who belong to Mar A Lago, that we have to go directly after what Trump did and what he'll do, which will do exactly what those economists said, put us back into an area of inflation. (04:41–04:48)

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Asserts that 83% of Trump's tax cut benefits went to the top 1% of earners.

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