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Ron Johnson: “So really, the incentive in government is failure actually pays off in government, does it not?”

On the recordJuly 14, 2013
So really, the incentive in government is failure actually pays off in government, does it not?
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson critiques government incentives that reward failure.

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