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Ben Wikler: “That's greater than all corporate taxes that are taxed in…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Interview with Ben Wickler on Stepping Down as Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair

Published | Video Starts at 09:30

Well, the pause certainly helped and I think that the voices I heard in Milwaukee business community were amplified across the country. And that is that $600 billion in new tariffs, which is $600 billion in new taxes. That's greater than all corporate taxes that are taxed in America in a given year. There's no way or it takes a very creative mind to think that that would not be inflationary. And so that's why businesses was really concerned. (09:30–09:36)

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Asserts that the new tariffs exceed the total annual corporate taxes in the U.S.

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