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Ron Johnson: “We have a completely uncompetitive tax situation.”

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

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Chairman Johnson's remarks at the HSGAC hearing on regulatory reform

Published | Video Starts at 02:11

You have to be able to afford the luxury of the pollution controls to keep your environment clean. So we need a strong economy. Our weaknesses, certainly We have a completely uncompetitive tax situation. And Senator Portman had a great hearing here on the uncompetitive nature of our tax system in his Permanent Summit Committee on Investigations. So we have an uncompetitive tax system. (02:11–02:14)

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Asserts that the U.S. tax system is uncompetitive.

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