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Rick Scott: “We're gonna make people sell things when it might be a…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 04:25

I mean, if any of you bought and sold companies you do not have, oh, somebody's gonna buy today. I know I can walk out the door and there'll be somebody to buy the company. So We're gonna make people sell things when it might be a absolute worst time to sell something. And they busted their butt to go build that business, and then they want to come up here and serve. And then we say, well, you got to give up your net worth. (04:25–04:31)

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Asserts that the proposed policy would force people to sell assets at potentially unfavorable times.

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