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Rae Oliver Davis: I think all young people, when you see kids in this country have that natural desire to create opportunity, and what do…

On the recordJanuary 16, 2007
I think all young people, when you see kids in this country have that natural desire to create opportunity, and what do we do with Big Government? Big Government stifles that opportunity. We stifle it by creating excessive regulations. We stifle it by tax. What might sound good, again, I come back to the politics of class warfare where they say, oh, we have got to just stop these profits from going to companies. It is not fair for somebody who is working 100 hours a week in reality to be more successful than you. But it is those people who are creating the jobs for others. They are fueling the economy for research. They are fueling the education and research and development programs in our universities. I look at another time in history where there was a government attempt to control energy prices, when OPEC began to assert itself in 1973 and 1974. There was an attempt to control prices.
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Rae Oliver Davis
Independent · Kentucky

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Discussing the impact of government regulations and taxes on economic opportunity.

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