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Ron Johnson: “Our weak, tepid growth over the last four and a half years…”

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

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Senator Johnson on In the Loop w/ Betty Liu

Published | Video Starts at 15:53

We have been over the decades increasing the layers of regulation, uncompetitive tax rates. It's incredibly harmful. The way you have a strong middle class is you have a robust economy. And Our weak, tepid growth over the last four and a half years during this recovery. the opportunity cost of that, the lack of economic activity that we've, we've realized because of that is hard to make up. (15:53–15:58)

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Asserts that there has been weak economic growth over the last four and a half years during the recovery.

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