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Opponents of the New Mexico Food Tax Talk about their Fight in the Special Session

Allen Sanchez, lobbyist for the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops talks about a Senate Committee passing a large bill to balance the state's budget. The bill included a tax on food which the conference strongly opposes.

 

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