In a way, I think you've really framed things. I appreciate your perspective because you're getting a little bit off at a distance and saying look, there's two choices and the two parties really are very, very different in this. One seems…

Oh, boy. Well, we have another gentleman here, coming a little farther from the west, Congressman Bishop, who is joining us. He is also a guy who has had some experience in the business world, and also as a teacher and a leader here on the…

Just interrupting again, what you're really saying is that you can get more revenue in a State if you back off on taxes?

I appreciate your thoughts and particularly the direction that you're taking, because my argument would be the problem that we've pointed out with overspending cannot be solved with increasing taxes, and I'd like to talk about that for a…

Now, the idea of cutting taxes in a recession and cutting Federal spending is not new. JFK understood that principle. He cut taxes when he was President during a recession and put us back on a good economic footing. Ronald Reagan had the…

What you are saying is most businessmen, if you tell them we are having trouble with overspending so what we are going to do is spend some more, they are going to laugh you out of the shop; is that basically what it boils down to?

It is a treat to be able to join you and my colleagues today, and at the beginning of a new year, take on a subject that we have been aware of and increasingly conscious of, the problems relative to our economy, to jobs, but particularly…

So what happened--let me see if I understand this. The sales tax holiday was not a total cutting of all the sales tax; it just reduced it much lower.

As I recall, gentleman, at that time, weren't there people who said that income tax could possibly get as high as 5 percent and they were laughed off the floor of the Congress, that income taxes could get as high as 5 percent? Am I right…

This is so important because down here in Washington, DC, there are really two very different schools of thought on this; aren't there? There are some people, and I think they are people probably who come from your background as executives…

You know, the thing that's exciting to me and encouraging to me, it's not just you gentlemen, but the fact that you came here because America was waking up. America is saying it's time to take back America. We're tired of being bullied by…

I keep thinking an awful lot of Americans must be starting to feel the same way I do: that the government is not a servant anymore; that it's a fearful master. We were warned by the forefathers that if you let your government, your Federal…