Mike Thompson: “There have been no hearings on this bill, there have been no expert witnesses. The only help that we have gotten are…”

“There have been no hearings on this bill, there have been no expert witnesses. The only help that we have gotten are from the outside organizations and the universities that crunched these numbers to be able to give us some glimpse of what is going to happen and the benefit of some analysis from the Joint Tax staff, but there have been no hearings, there have been no experts, nobody from our district who lives and breathes this, no one from our districts who are going to be impacted by this. This was done from the top down and crammed through in the most bastardized system that I have ever seen in my years here.”