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Cory Booker: What businesses do is they externalize their costs onto other people, and they internalize their profits.

On the recordMarch 7, 2018
What businesses do is they externalize their costs onto other people, and they internalize their profits.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker criticizes businesses for shifting costs onto communities while keeping profits.

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