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Rand Paul: “Japan subsidizes 32 percent of their exports and we only subsidize a small amount, only 2 percent. So I guess I would be…”

On the recordJuly 30, 1997
Japan subsidizes 32 percent of their exports and we only subsidize a small amount, only 2 percent. So I guess I would be complaining a lot more if I lived in Japan because they do so much more; but if we look at the economic growth of Japan, now it is less than 1 percent and we are doing better. We have economic growth of 4 percent.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

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Discussing economic growth and export subsidies in a comparison between the U.S. and Japan.

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