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Ron Johnson: “We have been over the decades increasing the layers of…”

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 15:43

Take a look at Occupy Wall street and who basically supported that movement, at least rhetorically, and that was the president, that was Democrats. I mean, this has, we have been demonizing success and it hasn't been helpful. We have been over the decades increasing the layers of regulation, uncompetitive tax rates. It's incredibly harmful. The way you have a strong middle class is you have a robust economy. (15:43–15:49)

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Asserts that over the decades, there has been an increase in regulation and uncompetitive tax rates.

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