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Dusty Johnson: “Every reasonable person should acknowledge that $2 trillion…”

Featuring: Dusty Johnson, Republican | U.S. House, South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 17:55

And so that's the trap we get into politically. I mean, I can try to move our country in the right direction. I mean, it seems like Every reasonable person should acknowledge that $2 trillion upside down every single year is absolutely reprehensible. And so then you start to talk about, well, okay, how do we fix it? I mean, we could put into place Joe Biden's billionaires tax that he proposed in his last State of the Union address that would generate $50 billion. (17:55–18:04)

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Asserts that the $2 trillion annual deficit is reprehensible.

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