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Zach Wahls: “I would have fought for a bill that would have allowed rates…”

Featuring: Zach Wahls, Democratic | Iowa Senate, District 43

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Published | Video Starts at 21:37

Somehow, if you're a member of the Senate, what stays and what goes on that we'll start with you, Zach Walls. Dave, I'll tell you exactly what I would have done. I would have fought for a bill that would have allowed rates on households earning more than $250,000 a year to rise back to where they were when the first Trump administration started. We're not even talking about going back to Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, just back to where they were before Donald Trump took office in 2017. (21:37–21:47)

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Asserts that tax rates on high-income households should return to pre-Trump levels.

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