'Never met a poor person that created jobs': GOP senator mocks tax cut question [View all]

By Travis Gettys
Published May 30, 2025 1:23 PM ET

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) dismissed a student's question about the Republican tax cut bill by mocking poor people.

The Wisconsin Republican spoke Thursday at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he defended the extension of president Donald Trump's tax cuts when one of the students asked why the GOP bill focused on spending cuts instead of raising revenue to balance the budget.

"I'm a young person, and in your talk you talked a lot about how the deficit represents a transfer of wealth from young to old, and I'm sensitive to that," said student Joseph Hennessy. "Of course, you can't spend money that you don't have. But, of course, there are two ways to reduce the deficit. One is to cut spending and the other is to increase revenue. So I'm wondering why you're only focused on one half of that equation, cutting spending, and not opposing these massive tax cuts that disproportionately go to the wealthiest Americans who really don't need that tax cut and why we're looking at cutting things like Medicaid and funding for critical scientific research on the back of that."

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Hey Ronny..............where did you get your money..........if history is any indicator your money came from your wife and her family...........and PACUR...............so again your a dickhead..............there are a lot of people that are "poor" dickhead that created jobs...........they are called self employed..........like I was when I was delivering newspapers..............you really are a POS and yes you will vote to screw Wisconsinites out of Medicaid and Medicare and SNAP.......no doubt in my my mind............