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Some of the charges and antics would have been funny except for the tragedy involved. I made the case that NAFTA would be good for the economies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, creating a giant market of nearly 400 million people; that it would strengthen U. tax rate from 34 to 36 percent on incomes over $10 million; end the tax subsidy that made it more profit I believed he had been the best and most important Treasury secretary since Alexander Hamilton in the early days of our Republic.

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