You are absolutely right. I think you are hitting a couple of different points in this chart. The first one I am talking about is excessive taxation. But taxation also creates an economic uncertainty. And if you have got that lemonade stand and you don't know what's going on, you think maybe a tornado is coming, or maybe there is a tornado coming from Washington, or whatever it is, what you are going to do is you are going to hunker down. In Missouri, we use the word hunker down. I don't know if there is a verb to hunker or not.
W. Todd Akin: “You are absolutely right. I think you are hitting a couple of different points in this chart. The first one I am talking…”
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The speaker discusses the impact of excessive taxation and economic uncertainty.
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