If the gentleman would yield, in small town rural America, a big company has 25 employees, maybe 40 employees. I mean, they are the massive job creators of rural America. And I know the Department of Commerce has their categories of what defines small. Most folks in my congressional district--again, I have someone who joined me tonight--I mean, if someone had 500 jobs in any part of the district, that would be like a massive influx. And so that's where we need to get to. We need to provide the incentive. I'm not just putting just the national government to blame. The State of Illinois is one of the worst States for people to locate and create jobs because of additional things that you just highlighted.
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