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Ron Johnson: “The cumulative harm of decades of layer upon layer upon…”

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 12:59

Tell me, Ron, there's no way I could, I could start my business and grow it the way I did if I had to do it today. So The cumulative harm of decades of layer upon layer upon layer of government regulation, of uncompetitive tax rates. You have to make America an attractive place for capital investment, business expansion, job creation. And we're not doing that. And we're certainly not doing it by demonizing businesses and demagogue against success. (12:59–13:07)

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Asserts that decades of government regulation and uncompetitive tax rates have caused cumulative harm.

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