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Raphael Warnock: These fees provide no economic value. They are a drag on the American economy, and business school economists call this…

On the recordJuly 25, 2023
These fees provide no economic value. They are a drag on the American economy, and business school economists call this, quote, 'rent seeking.'
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Raphael Warnock
Democratic · Georgia

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Warnock criticizes certain fees as economically harmful and unnecessary.

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