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The Montana Standard - Butte, Montana USA |
 | | And to listen to Burns, Tester as a state lawmaker was a relentless tax-hike advocate, trying to slap new taxes on everything from soda pop to water, while raising the state budget by hundreds of millions of dollars. |
 | | Tester also voted in 2005 to freeze the state property tax on business equipment at 3 percent, rather than allow it to phase out if an economic trigger was met. |
 | | Tester has called for federal tax cuts of $30 billion annually to provide tax credits for first-time homebuyers, a college tuition tax break, a deduction for elderly care expenses and a lifetime tax credit to any honorably discharged member of the military. |
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