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Jim Risch: “My experience is that the marketplace, if there's dollars and cents involved, always figure it out before the government…”

On the recordJune 8, 2011
My experience is that the marketplace, if there's dollars and cents involved, always figure it out before the government does.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch emphasizes the efficiency of the marketplace over government in economic matters.

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