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(Archived document, may contain errors) 93 June 21, 1983 H.R. 3110 LEASING "REFORM" THREATENS CITIES   Steve H. Hanke Senior Fellow INTRODUCTION

Special privileges which is fine? you can make a case they shouldn't have these special breaks, etc., disney shouldn't. but to yank them away specifically tied to political speech or political actions that the ruling party doesn't like feels punitive. i'm not sure that's a great precedent even if you are like enjoying how it feels and sort of sayings this is a good counter punch? >> dana: thanks for being here. we're waiting the hear from president biden. he is set to speak any moment. as an update he is going to give to the united states about the help that our country is going to give to ukr...

I said what kind of a man is this? >> reporter: barr was accused of trying to even protect the president's associates, like michael flynn and roger stone, who were both charged in connection with mueller's investigation. >> i agree, the president's friends don't deserve special breaks, but they also don't deserve to be treated more harshly than other people. >> reporter: former president trump repeatedly called for investigations into the officials connected to these probes. >> somebody has to get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: barr repeatedly tapped prosecutors to review issues of politica...

And both of those plans, we will see which one gets us to that goal. in addition we have been looking at the middle income which needs the greatest tax relief. if we look at those as our goal everything that drives us should be towards those goals. there are numbers that are different, if we want to do simplification we need [blooge >> that is a word you brought up. you read through these bills, there is an awful lot of special-interest pork. there are special deductions for microbreweries, $10 million for south korean tuna company in american samoa. there are special orange growers, special b...

To the wealthy at the expense of the middle class -- >> and elected someone who was accused of, right -- >> yeah, exactly. i mean, he's -- this bill helps -- does not help the people who donald trump -- who donald trump drew his greatest support from. but i think there's so much in here, you know, whether it's repealing tax breaks for graduate students or repealing tax breaks for people who have big medical expenses or taking away state and local tax deductions and so on, while you're giving away, you know, special breaks for people who have planes and huge billions of dollars of -- trillions ...