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Ron Johnson: “I would like to scrap the current tax code. I would like to just raise the revenue we need and stop economic and social…”

On the recordMarch 31, 2014
I would like to scrap the current tax code. I would like to just raise the revenue we need and stop economic and social engineering through the tax code.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson expresses a desire to reform the tax code to eliminate social engineering.

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