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Ron Johnson: “The percentage of Americans on food stamps range somewhere…”

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

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Senator Johnson on MSNBC's Morning Joe

Published | Video Starts at 07:54

Let's start from a clean piece of paper and let's build a tax code that raises the revenue we need and does no economic harm. But in terms of food stamps, generally, the number of Americans, The percentage of Americans on food stamps range somewhere between 6 and 10%. We're up to about 15%. Something has gone off kilter here. And again, you know, I'm not, I'm not saying let's not help those that need help. We want to help those folks. (07:54–08:06)

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Asserts that the percentage of Americans on food stamps has increased to about 15%.

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