Political Quotes

“It is. And there's another aspect to tax on the medical devices. I was talking to a small businessman who runs a manufacturing facility, and he showed me the medical device that he makes. It's a marvelously crafted piece of aluminum that he did with a vertical mill, just unbelievably beautiful. And he said, I've been told by the people who order this device from me that if we have this tax on medical devices, even though this ostensibly would apply to imports, that they're just going to take it and go to China to have this made because they can come in cheaper than anything else, and that would really be the straw that breaks the camel's back. And so now here we are in the district I represent, with official unemployment in Rockford, Illinois, at 19.7 percent, add 7 percentage points to that, almost 27 percent unemployment, and now I'm looking a manufacturer in the eye who says, Not only will this bill impose this harsh mandate and force taxes upon me that I cannot afford, and increase the cost of health care insurance, but I could end up losing jobs because of people offshoring the manufacturing of these medical devices.”