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Jim Risch: “Most of all, these kinds of stories are just staggering when people go out as entrepreneurs, as people who are going to…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2017
Most of all, these kinds of stories are just staggering when people go out as entrepreneurs, as people who are going to create wealth and make life better for Americans and they get nothing but beat over the head from their government and very little help.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch criticizes government treatment of entrepreneurs.

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