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Ron Johnson: “Democrats, when they had four years, they could have…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson Discusses U.S. Spending and Tax Policies

Published | Video Starts at 02:27

The green bar there shows on average we collect about 17.1% of our GDP in revenue. That's where we are today. And Democrats, when they had four years, they could have repealed the Tax Cut and Job Act. They didn't do it. We're not cutting taxes for, you know, the main part of this bill is we're just not increasing taxes by $4 trillion, which would be devastating for our economy and everybody would suffer. (02:27–02:34)

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Asserts that Democrats did not repeal the Tax Cut and Jobs Act when they had the opportunity.

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