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Ron Johnson: “One of the reasons we had budget surpluses in the late 1990s is government spending was only a little over 18 percent.”

On the recordApril 16, 2013
One of the reasons we had budget surpluses in the late 1990s is government spending was only a little over 18 percent.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson attributes past budget surpluses to lower government spending levels.

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