Austan Goolsbee Quotes

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

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• I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
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