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Ron DeSantis: “The government's already taking in a higher percentage of…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 03:45

What is it? So we are going to be rolling out some tax plan. I mean, we're going to have low, transparent, simple rates. We're not going to raise taxes. The government's already taking in a higher percentage of GDP than at any time I think, since the Second World War. So we don't have a taxing problem. We have a spending problem. On that issue of spending, the issue is that, in fact, Republicans and under Donald Trump, he added $8 trillion to the debt. (03:45–03:52)

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Asserts that the government is taking in a historically high percentage of GDP.

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