But we got ourselves in that trouble, as far as the government goes. We can't point fingers at somebody that is smart and figures out how to do it. What we do is fix the problem, which is the underlying code, by making it fairer and flatter. I'll just say, we were saying earlier, Mr. Speaker, that we've been communicating tonight with our constituents at #4Jobs. Just some of the things that I'm hearing go directly to this point. Josh from Troy says: Throw out the Tax Code. I just want to highlight that the people that we're hearing from, Mr. Speaker, are saying exactly what our frustrations are on this floor, as the President tells us to pivot back to jobs and the economy. James from Dothan, Alabama, says: Taking out ObamaCare will help free employers to hire full- time employees, which our economy really needs. Sara from Dothan: Health care is the biggest problem. Employers are afraid to hire until they know the whole deal. We've talked about that in your three R's, the repeal and the replace being the first, about this uncertainty not just in the regulatory environment that businesses have to deal with, or, with the Tax Code, which is the point you were all just making, but also in how these laws are going to be implemented. We've passed these gargantuan bills. We don't know what's in them. And they get passed. And now the uncertainty associated with it.…
Martha Roby: “But we got ourselves in that trouble, as far as the government goes. We can't point fingers at somebody that is smart…”
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