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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 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

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

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 8, 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 8, 2024

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

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Jul 8, 2024

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

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Jul 8, 2024

So again, it's hard to get that figure, but somewhere between two-thirds and three-quarters of C corp income is never double taxed...

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Jul 8, 2024

The rational choice for a business person, if you want to continue to compete ...

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Jul 8, 2024

So, 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...

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Jul 8, 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 8, 2024

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

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Jun 18, 2024

The reason the American public legitimately do not trust scientists and Federal health agencies are because of people like you.

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Jun 18, 2024

In Eisenhower's very prescient farewell speech, he not only warned us about the military industrial complex, he warned us about government funding of research.

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Jun 18, 2024

I think we witnessed that during COVID. They drove it in a very bad direction.

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Jun 18, 2024

I think one of the things we have to provide oversight is the sabotage of early treatment using widely available cheap and safe generic drugs.

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Jun 18, 2024

What possible reason is there to be producing what nature probably could not produce? Why are we doing this?

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Jun 18, 2024

Again, that's the rationale they used. The thing they really scared the public on was the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

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Jun 18, 2024

My guess is the smoking gun exists somewhere under these heavy redactions.

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Jun 18, 2024

We may not have a smoking gun, but the circumstantial evidence is strong that this was a man-made virus.

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Jun 18, 2024

We need to do a lot of oversight, not just on the origin, which is an important aspect of this, but on everything.

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Jun 18, 2024

The reason the American public legitimately do not trust scientists and Federal health agencies are because of people like you.

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Jun 18, 2024

I think we witnessed that during COVID. They drove it in a very bad direction.

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Jun 18, 2024

He said you do that, then scientists are going to be more interested in their grant, in obtaining a grant than pursuing truthful science.

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Jun 18, 2024

In Eisenhower's very prescient farewell speech, he not only warned us about the military industrial complex, he warned us about government funding of research.

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