Let me see if I can just cut in and restate what you said, because I know that you have an expertise in small business. So you've got a small businessman who's showing a lot of creativity, the sort of innovative spirit that's in America, comes up with a medical device machined out of aluminum, which is a very specialized kind of device. And so what's going to happen is we're going to drop a tax on this thing, which makes it more expensive. And what you're saying is somebody overseas is going to say, I can make that device, and what's more, I don't have to pay the tax on it.
W. Todd Akin: “Let me see if I can just cut in and restate what you said, because I know that you have an expertise in small business.…”
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Akin discusses the impact of taxation on small businesses and innovation in the medical device industry.
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