Christopher Shays: “No, I think the gentlewoman is talking for the farmer, because the consumer is getting screwed in this system. The…”

What are we hoping to achieve in Syria, and why do we think doing what we are planning on doing will give us the results we want?

I think we do ourselves well to wash our mouth with soap about our credibility.

Right. Because what we do is we cap the payroll at $120,000. And so it ends up being $12,000 an employer would pay. But when I was speaking of someone with 500 employees, they would pay $21,000 salary, they pay 5.25, 5¼ percent of payroll…

A military strike will do nothing to address that issue, and would exacerbate it by accelerating the transfer of chemical weapons to people who would do us harm.