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Ron Johnson: “That's what government should be protecting us against is…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson on the DarkHorse Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 47:43

And again, in our economic times, a few billion dollars just is not much. It sounds like a lot, but it's not, not in the general scheme of things. Again, That's what government should be protecting us against is, you know, those narrow economic interests that could put a couple billion bucks in somebody's pocket, but it's costing society trillions. Well, this is the key failure. And it's actually what those of us, I think you and I would agree that liberty is individual. Liberty is actually the key objective of the system. (47:43–47:56)

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Asserts that government should protect society from narrow economic interests that profit at the expense of societal costs.

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