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Ron Johnson: “The trust fund really has--to the Government as a whole, has no value.”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
The trust fund really has--to the Government as a whole, has no value.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

Editor's note · Context

Johnson argues that the Social Security trust fund has no real value to the government.

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