Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, discusses the debate over maintaining the so-called “Bush tax cuts” for families earning more than $250,000 a year. Cordato offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 385).
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