Political Quotes

“If the gentleman would yield, I'd slip another anecdote into this that comes from just last weekend. I was over in eastern Iowa doing an event, and I happened to get reacquainted with a young gentleman by the name of Michael Dicks. Now, he is 13 years old; soon he'll be 14. But when he was 8 years old--I've told this story in the Congressional Record in the past--he saved up his money to go buy a little box of Skittles. So he had his change counted out just right in his pocket--89 cents for a box of Skittles--and had to reach up to the counter, I presume, and got his Skittles off the shelf and put them up on the counter. And he counted out his 89 cents and the checker rang it up and said, that will be 96 cents. And he said, but the price says 89 cents. And the checker said, but you have to pay the tax--that's the sales taxes in Iowa--so that's 96 cents, young man. And he turned to his dad and he said, Dad, I have to pay taxes on Skittles? What a painful experience for an 8- year-old young man. But think of what that means if our taxes are transparent. That young man is going to grow up to be a conservative. He's going to put fewer demands on government. He's going to demand one thing--less taxes, less services. We're going to want to have more personal and individual responsibility, and we're going to let people provide for their own security in a lot of ways and achieve on their own.…”