Ron Johnson: “It's a horribly inefficient way. Send your tax dollars to…”

“Now part of the problem here is we're looking for the federal government to be the tax collector and then try and recycle those taxes. You think that's very efficient? It's a horribly inefficient way. Send your tax dollars to Washington D.C. have them take an enormous cut and then send the dollars back to the states with all kinds of strings attached. That's a really terrible and broken model. Yeah. What about. So we talked about the crime. Inflation is another one that is on top of mind of everyone.” (18:14–18:24)

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