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Oct 8 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
WOW: Ron Johnson calls the minimum wage "price fixing".

#wisen
He's been getting a pass on this kind of extremist crap for a long time
This is a guy who doubled his net worth while in office, who thinks that minimum wage is "price fixing"

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