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Ron Johnson: “We really only have about a half a trillion dollars, 500…”

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

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Senator Johnson on MSNBC

Published | Video Starts at 01:45

Actually, it's pretty easy find out the minimum cost. If you take a look at the real budget window, when this really kicks in 2016 to 2025, it'll cost $2.4 trillion and We really only have about a half a trillion dollars, 500 billion of fees. Penalties. I'm sorry, not penalties, taxes that are going to pay for that. So you got about a $1.6 trillion budget deficit that is going to come out of what reduced funding for Medicare and Medicaid. It's going to be a disaster. (01:45–01:54)

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Asserts that there are only $500 billion in taxes to pay for the health care law.

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