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Ron Johnson: “President Obama, in order for any tax reform, first thing is…”

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

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Sen. Johnson on CNBC's Squawk Box

Published | Video Starts at 06:28

We have some of the biggest American companies on the Runway ready to leave here. Not all the Democrats want to cut taxes on the corporations. Yeah, exactly. The problem is President Obama, in order for any tax reform, first thing is you got to have a trillion dollars of tax increase on the table. and that's not going to be good for economic growth either. So if we actually had a president who was willing to lead, understood what made the economy grow and it's not punishing success, it's actually incentivizing. (06:28–06:35)

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Asserts that President Obama requires a trillion-dollar tax increase for any tax reform.

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