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Ron Johnson: “We dropped the tax rate, I think way lower than we had to…”

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

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Senator Ron Johnson on the DarkHorse Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 49:28

95% of businesses are passers, which means the business income passes through to the individual or in his tax at that level. The result of all this is 75% of C Corp income is never double taxed. Okay. We dropped the tax rate, I think way lower than we had to for C Corps, put them at a huge economic advantage to pass throughs. Their tax rate now is what we call permanent and pass throughs automatically going to get a tax increase in 2026. (49:28–49:36)

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Asserts that the tax rate for C Corporations was reduced significantly, giving them an economic advantage over pass-through entities.

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