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Ron Johnson: “The tax system costs about $400 billion a year to comply…”

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

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Full interview with Sen. Ron Johnson | Playbook The First 100 Days: Tax Reform

Published | Video Starts at 13:28

All the rearranging the deck chairs, the Titanic, they'll go back the old way if we don't do this. So let's prevent that from happening. But recognize that that's still a highly complex The tax system costs about $400 billion a year to comply with and that's probably a low ball estimate. We always talk about this as Republicans. We always talk about simplifying the tax code. Why don't we actually do it? (13:28–13:32)

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