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Ron Johnson: “Taxpayers [are] on the hook for growing liabilities [of the…”

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

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Chairman Johnson's Remarks for HSGAC Nominations Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 32:09

… we need to maintain this organization at all cost and have it expand into different areas that just might compete with private sector companies with an implicit taxpayer guarantee, with Taxpayers [are] on the hook for growing liabilities [of the Post Office]. I mean, I think these are very serious questions the Board of Governors are going to have to be asking themselves and that Congress has. We have to ask ourselves the same questions. (32:09–32:11)

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Asserts that taxpayers are responsible for increasing financial liabilities of the Post Office.

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