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Ron Johnson: “If we're talking about tax reform, I was saying, let's throw…”

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

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Senator Johnson Discusses White House Meeting on Federal Spending

Published | Video Starts at 03:41

Before you really start getting into the disagreements. It's amazing how much easier it is then to get over the hurdles of the disagreements. So that was one of my inputs. Another one was If we're talking about tax reform, I was saying, let's throw the tax code out. Let's talk about something dramatic. If we just nibble around the edges, that's when you have all the special interests trying to preserve their special treatment. (03:41–03:46)

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Asserts the need for a dramatic overhaul of the tax code.

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