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Ron Johnson: “He's increasing taxes by over a trillion.”

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

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Johnson Discusses Obama Budget on CNBC

Published | Video Starts at 01:12

Listen, it's probably a good thing that he included chained CPI adjustment in here, but you got to look at the numbers on that. That's about $130 billion over 10 years in reduced spending. But He's increasing taxes by over a trillion. By the way, the deficit in Social Security over the next 10 years will be about 1.3 trillion. So the chain CPI would take care about 10% of that. (01:12–01:15)

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Asserts that President Obama's budget proposal includes over a trillion dollars in tax increases.

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