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On the recordJuly 14, 2010
You create an environment in America that is hostile to business and the jobs are going to go overseas. It is as inevitable as water running downhill. And what do we do? We keep increasing taxes, increasing government spending, and the smart executives and corporations in America that have plants and facilities all over the world, they keep creating jobs. It's just the jobs aren't here. The jobs are going overseas because they've created such a hostile environment that the jobs aren't going to be here. And how do they make the environment hostile? Well, first of all, by too much in taxes, and the second thing, of course, is too much spending. If you want to get this thing back on track, if you want to do the opposite of job killers, you want to create jobs, then what you need to do is you want to cut your taxation.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker addresses the issue of jobs moving overseas due to high taxes and government spending.

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