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Ron Johnson: “We've added $669 billion of revenue through meager economic…”

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

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Senator Johnson on The Kudlow Report

Published | Video Starts at 01:42

So again, we've got a grower economy. You know, another good little factoid is even with meager economic growth from 2009 to fiscal 2013, now We've added $669 billion of revenue through meager economic growth [from 2009 to fiscal 2013]. So let's not do anything to harm economic growth. Let's get the economy going. You know, the federal government does enough to harm our economy, we don't need to heap on additional harm by threatening shutdown. (01:42–01:56)

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Asserts that $669 billion in revenue was added from 2009 to fiscal 2013 due to economic growth.

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