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Ron Johnson

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Ron Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin, a position he has held since January 3, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Johnson has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, healthcare reform, and government accountability during his tenure in the Senate. He has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the federal deficit and has often emphasized the need for economic growth through private sector initiatives.

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Apr 25, 2023

I have pressed him repeatedly in terms of what the real numbers are, in terms of total numbers coming into this country.

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Apr 25, 2023

Our federal health agencies, who have not been honest and transparent with us, they've not made the correlation.

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Apr 25, 2023

we had a witness that says about $5 trillion. So if your multiplier is accurate, we should have already seen about a 30 to 35 trillion dollar economic benefit from that $5 trillion.

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Apr 20, 2023

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

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Apr 19, 2023

the lack of enforcement, quite honestly--when we have emails showing Hunter Biden simply did not disclose income, we do not see any enforcement action.

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Apr 19, 2023

I am highly concerned about how you are going to keep partisanship out of your enforcement efforts.

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Apr 19, 2023

I am highly concerned about how you are going to keep partisanship out of your enforcement efforts.

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Apr 19, 2023

the lack of enforcement, quite honestly--when we have emails showing Hunter Biden simply did not disclose income, we do not see any enforcement action.

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Apr 18, 2023

the most recent, and I would say outrageous example of this was when journalist Matt Taibbi was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on their weaponization of government.

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Apr 18, 2023

I am highly concerned about how you are going to keep partisanship out of your enforcement efforts.

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Apr 18, 2023

But you are failing miserably. Four to 5 million people, 1.4 million unknown gotaways.

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Apr 18, 2023

I would argue that's somewhat unfair.

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Apr 18, 2023

But you are failing miserably. Four to 5 million people, 1.4 million unknown gotaways.

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Apr 18, 2023

It is getting to be a business for some of these co-sponsors.

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Apr 18, 2023

Mr. Secretary, you ought to resign.

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Apr 18, 2023

I think Dr. McBride pretty well laid out the solution here. It would be to simplify and rationalize our Tax Code.

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Apr 18, 2023

What would be fair? Right now, they're paying, you know, almost double.

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Apr 18, 2023

I think the other solution, in terms of what you're talking about, trying to tax capital gains, which I think violates a basic principle of taxation.

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Apr 18, 2023

that's what you're talking about in terms of people turning what should be Medicare taxable income into passthrough income, right?

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Apr 18, 2023

Mr. Secretary, you ought to resign.

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Apr 18, 2023

I think the other solution, in terms of what you're talking about, trying to tax capital gains, which I think violates a basic principle of taxation.

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Apr 18, 2023

What would be fair? Right now, they're paying, you know, almost double.

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Apr 18, 2023

I think Dr. McBride pretty well laid out the solution here. It would be to simplify and rationalize our Tax Code.

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