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Richard Neal: “There was negligible economic growth, the slowest since…”

Featuring: Richard Neal, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 1st Congressional District

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To The Point: Talking Taxes with Rep. Richard Neal

Published | Video Starts at 06:31

They are guaranteeing that you're going to have growth north of 3%. You can't find a mainstream economist who says that that guarantee is to be embraced. But this is what they're telling all of us. There was negligible economic growth, the slowest since Herbert Hoover with the Bush tax cuts. And then we had the collapse. Well, you had the collapse, but you also had $2.3 trillion taken out of the federal revenue stream. (06:31–06:36)

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Asserts that the Bush tax cuts resulted in negligible economic growth, the slowest since Herbert Hoover.

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