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Shoe tax from 30s still on books

Shoes could be cheaper if a Great Depression-era tax is scaled back. A shoe tax was passed in the 1930s designed to protect a U.S. manufacturing sector that no longer exists from cheap, foreign imports. News 2's Lori Steele tells us how you could benefit from shoemakers paying less.

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