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Cory Booker: But this idea that we are privatizing profits and socializing costs has to stop.

On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
But this idea that we are privatizing profits and socializing costs has to stop.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker criticizes the practice of corporations privatizing profits while externalizing costs to the public.

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