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Renard Johnson: “You have some of the highest taxes in the United States and…”

Featuring: Renard Johnson, Mayor of El Paso | Texas

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I want you to spend your money here, but you got to see what you're getting for your taxes. You got to see something for your taxes. If You have some of the highest taxes in the United States and some of the highest in the state of Texas. you got to show me something. I saw something that we were like, the second highest tax rate in the United States. That's correct. And I look at what we get for it. (31:15–31:21)

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