Political Quotes

“Every year, I travel and visit every county in the State of Indiana--92 of them. You know, I can't ever recall anyone saying that they want the IRS to poke into their business more on a day-to-day basis. In fact, they bemoan the fact that many years ago, the IRS was actually sifting through stuff to determine who was conservative or not before they might grant status to your entity. We have gotten to a point--and I think Senators Tuberville and Scott have eloquently laid out the details. I want to take a little different approach. I have been here a little less than 3 years, and this kind of entrepreneurialism through government, growing the Federal Government, having an Agency like the IRS that can't do its job well with the money that we do give to it, is just another example of trying to pile on one bad thing after another. It would be different if we weren't doing it borrowing 23 percent of the money we spend every year. Imagine that in your own household, in a State or local government, a business. You would be laughed out of the banker's office if you did that and then wanted a loan to cover it and then do it the next 10 years. It doesn't work anywhere else. This is an example that I think, along with maybe the vaccine mandate, where you are now forcing small businesses to do something when they finally got a rhythm--and businesses have protected their employees and their customers as well as anybody out there in that journey.…”