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Mike Johnson: “Small business owners like this would not be able to own…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Johnson campaigns for LePage in Maine

Published | Video Starts at 01:16

They'll be able to take it over. And if they ever did that, Heaven forbid they would take over the means of production. And Small business owners like this would not be able to own property and provide jobs anymore. The government would do everything. It is a dark, dangerous, deadly road to communism and it is not what America represents. But that's what Dunlap, Mr. Dunlap, is providing as the alternative. (01:16–01:22)

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Claims that under a socialist government, small business owners would lose property rights and job creation ability.

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