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"This may be the most anti-innovation piece of legislation to come along in some time," Reps say of med-tech tax | MassDevice.com On Call

October 4, 2011 by MassDevice staff

Reps. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) and Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) go to bat for med-tech, calling the FDA's 2.3 percent excise tax a job and innovation killer.

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MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Reps. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) and Jim Gerlach (R - Pa.) went to bat for medical device makers, urging that the 2.3 percent excise tax set to go into effect in 2013 will hinder innovation in the field.

Paulsen and Gerlach penned a statement on the med-tech levy, saying that the measure will be directly responsible for some 43,000 lost jobs and put American global competitiveness in peril.

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