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Matt Cartwright: “I also voted against that tax bill because it gives 83% of…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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PA 8th Congressional District Debate

Published | Video Starts at 21:51

That's a huge incentive to offshore more jobs. We've had about enough of that in Northeastern Pennsylvania. We need to create incentives for more manufacturing jobs here in Pennsylvania. Here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, I also voted against that tax bill because it gives 83% of the tax cuts to the top 1% in the corporations. People that don't need the money, that are just going to put it in their brokerage accounts or the corporations are just going to buy back their shares with that money. (21:51–22:02)

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Asserts that 83% of tax cuts from the bill went to the top 1% and corporations.

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