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Ron Johnson: “Our tax code, is 70,000 pages.”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson on the debt ceiling

Published | Video Starts at 02:32

So whatever solution we come up with needs to really be a pro growth agenda. I am all for a complete overhaul of our tax system, complete tax reform, Our tax code, is 70,000 pages. I've seen estimates that it costs anywhere from 200 billion to $338 billion just to comply with our tax code. To put that in context, we raised this year we'll probably get $2.5 trillion in revenue. (02:32–02:35)

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