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Ron Johnson: “So wouldn't that be the policy prescription, the first policy prescription is make sure that, rather than have the…”

On the recordApril 16, 2013
So wouldn't that be the policy prescription, the first policy prescription is make sure that, rather than have the taxpayers subsidize that, we come up with a model where the people utilizing the track are actually paying for it?
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson advocates for a pricing model for rail infrastructure to reduce taxpayer subsidies.

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