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Mike Johanns: “There just is not an appetite to buy more paper, because those who are in that marketplace look at the U.S. Government…”

On the recordFebruary 28, 2011
There just is not an appetite to buy more paper, because those who are in that marketplace look at the U.S. Government and say, you know, you have so detached the joy of spending from the pain of taxation that you do not have a fiscal plan.
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Mike Johanns
Republican · Alaska

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Johanns warns of potential future disinterest in U.S. Treasuries due to fiscal irresponsibility.

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