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Ron Johnson: “Had we allowed the Tax Cut and Jobs act to expire, there…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson's Wisconsin Town Hall: Addressing Federal Spending, Medicaid, and Immigration Concerns

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Be less people and less resources available for all of the other people who are also paying for it. So Kylie, first of all, I'll ask you, do you want a tax increase? Because Had we allowed the Tax Cut and Jobs act to expire, there would have been a $4 trillion tax increase on virtually every American that pays taxes. Because we cut them for virtually every American as much as Democrats lied about that back in 2017. So again, I wanted to prevent a massive automatic. (22:00–22:08)

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Asserts that the expiration of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act would result in a $4 trillion tax increase.

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