As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic response that included lockdowns, many small businesses folded while big companies thrived, a senator said, calling this phenomenon a “wealth transfer.”
 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) criticized the response to the pandemic, particularly the shutdowns, in a March 22 interview on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.
“There was nothing in the pandemic plan that called for shutdowns,” said Johnson, a Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs member, and the Budget and Finance Committee.
“The way we shut the economy down, we shut down all the little mom-and-pop shops, but we let the big box stores open.”…