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House candidate shares grass-roots ideals at Democratic forum
https://plainsman.com/article/house-candidate-shares-grass-roots-ideals-at-democratic-forumHURON – Republicans passed a tax bill just before Christmas that was everything the 1986 tax overhaul – the last time for such legislation – was not, Tim Bjorkman, seeking the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House, said Thursday.
“That was a year and a half in the making and had broad bipartisan support,” the retired circuit court judge from Canistota said of the Reagan-era tax reform effort.
Instead of a revenue-neutral bill, this time around the $1.5 trillion tax package will add billions of dollars to the mounting debt.
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Bjorkman believes in working to address the fundamental problems of not enough good jobs, strengthening the middle class and providing affordable health care. His decade on the bench convinced him that the chief enemies of crime are a good education and good job. “That was a year and a half in the making and had broad bipartisan support,” the retired circuit court judge from Canistota said of the Reagan-era tax reform effort.
Instead of a revenue-neutral bill, this time around the $1.5 trillion tax package will add billions of dollars to the mounting debt.
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