“This is not a shirts-and-skins issue. This is not a blue/red issue.”
“You're seeing a shift. The American people are growing weary of this war and what's happening.”
“Let’s be clear, if you’re a single mom, you cannot compete with Wall Street. They will outbid you every time, and so this is about fairness.”
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On the recordMay 12, 2010
Right. The first thing is on the taxation point, why would taxation kill jobs? You know, if you think about it--first of all, let's say, whereabouts are jobs? Well, 80 percent of jobs in America are businesses with 500 or fewer employees. So as you're saying you've got these small business guys out there, and all of a sudden the government just lets them have it with a whole bunch of taxes, the small businessman, the profit that his little business makes is viewed as he made a ton of money.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri
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The speaker is discussing the impact of taxation on small businesses and job creation.

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