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Tony Vargas: “We were able to provide historic tax relief.”

Featuring: Tony Vargas, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Nebraska, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 17:35

And we've been listening to voters, not to polls, not to anything else, but listening to them because this community, they're hurting right now. And then my experience in the legislature has been balanced budgets, controlling our spending. And because of that, We were able to provide historic tax relief. And I bucked my party to do that. And even when we were working on creating job creation just two, three years ago, through our tax incentive work, I made sure we had fiscal guardrails to make sure that we were not overspending. (17:35–17:38)

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