05/10/2011
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"We had this conservation with the previous panel and one of my concerns is about our competitiveness."
"That is how difficult it is. That is the reason I keep saying this next decade is going to be extremely difficult."
"So what we are doing is we are transferring wealth, income from those who can least afford it, at least in this example of Kansas and our mean income, to those who are better able to afford it."
"I do believe that this is one of the pieces of legislation that may be the most detrimental, damaging things that we could do to agriculture, to farmers and ranchers, to small businesses across the co..."