Ron Johnson: “It just simply isn't fair that the rest of the states would…”

“Plus you'd run into the problem where a lot of the states in the deepest trouble are blue. And you, you'd be faced with the picture of the White House favoring blue states. Right. Illinois, California. Outside of politics, It just simply isn't fair that the rest of the states would have to pony up and tax their citizens to bail out the citizens of the states that have not been responsible. Yes, it wouldn't be fair. So the federal government bails out the states and then the foreigners buy the treasuries. So that's terrible. Yeah, that's what we're doing.” (06:03–06:13)

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