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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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Jul 31, 2024

Government is not that smart. I mean honestly, $7.5 billion. We have seven charging stations.

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Jul 31, 2024

China dominates the battery industry and our subsidies are providing a market for China's command economy.

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Jul 31, 2024

I would say you do not. We should end them.

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Jul 31, 2024

Let the marketplace dictate the speed of this innovation. Stop subsidizing this. That is my only point.

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Jul 31, 2024

China dominates the battery industry and our subsidies are providing a market for China's command economy.

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Jul 31, 2024

We are going to have this command economy, and we are going to plan for a growth in the electrical grid?

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Jul 31, 2024

Government is not that smart. I mean honestly, $7.5 billion. We have seven charging stations.

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Jul 31, 2024

I would say you do not. We should end them.

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Jul 31, 2024

Government does not do very well.

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Jul 30, 2024

Stop subsidizing this. That is my only point.

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Jul 30, 2024

Government is not that smart. I mean honestly, $7.5 billion. We have seven charging stations.

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Jul 30, 2024

Those climate alarmists are generally opposed to nuclear, which certainly would be part of the problem.

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Jul 30, 2024

I would never go to 100 percent EV. Happy to do the hybrid. Happy to be environmentally friendly.

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Jul 30, 2024

We mess up when we--you know, government does not do very well.

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Jul 30, 2024

I would say you do not. We should end them.

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Jul 30, 2024

Let us face it, they have been trying to innovate batteries for decades and really have not been able to do it, have they?

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Jul 30, 2024

China dominates the battery industry and our subsidies are providing a market for China's command economy.

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Jul 9, 2024

I mean one of the real tragedies of that occurring is that we're going to have an enormous disparity between C corporations...

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Jul 9, 2024

CBO has warned Congress for decades that we'd face a fiscal reckoning due to ballooning mandatory spending.

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Jul 9, 2024

It's past time to get back to an adult conversation among elected officials, about getting the Federal Government back on a sustainable fiscal path.

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Jul 9, 2024

The reality is that President Biden has been dragged kicking and screaming to agree to even modest spending restraints.

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Jul 9, 2024

Social Security was so important we can't let it go broke.

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Jul 9, 2024

The rational choice for a business person, if you want to continue to compete because let's face it, pass throughs compete with the corporate corporations at the entity level.

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Jul 9, 2024

Large pass through is going to be paying a top marginal tax rate over 40 percent competing against whether it's a large or small C corp, some with an effective tax rate of 10 to 14 percent.

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Jul 9, 2024

I mean one of the real tragedies of that occurring is that we're going to have an enormous disparity between C corporations...

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