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Mike Johnson: “If you want a fair, simple, and pro-growth system, you should tax excessive leverage in the financial system and use the…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2011
If you want a fair, simple, and pro-growth system, you should tax excessive leverage in the financial system and use the revenue that generates to reduce corporate taxation for the non-financial sector.
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

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Proposal to tax excessive leverage to support non-financial sector corporate tax reductions.

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