Senate Budget Committee Chairman Whitehouse Issues Opening Statement at Hearing on Cost of Tax Dodging by Wealthy, Big Corporations
June 26, 2023
June 26, 2023
WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on April 18, 2023, entitled "A Rigged System: The Cost of Tax Dodging by the Wealthy and Big Corporations":
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There are two sides to the budget: spending and revenues. While some colleagues only want to look at the spending side, the US has never run a modern-era balanced budget unless revenues neared . . .
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There are two sides to the budget: spending and revenues. While some colleagues only want to look at the spending side, the US has never run a modern-era balanced budget unless revenues neared . . .