Kelly Ayotte: “I could not agree more with what my colleague from Florida has said, that we need to create a positive climate to create…”

“I could not agree more with what my colleague from Florida has said, that we need to create a positive climate to create jobs. But one thing we do know is that does not happen by more spending in Washington. The recent report that came out about the President's stimulus package has shown that it cost $278,000 per job created by that stimulus package. Yet we had to borrow so much money, nearly $1 trillion to create a limited number of jobs that cost us $278,000 a job. I do come from a small business family. My husband started a landscaping and snow-plowing business. I worked with him to start that business. New Hampshire is a small business State. As I campaigned up and down our State, I talked to so many small business owners. I never had a small business owner tell me they were being taxed too little, please tax me more. What I did hear was too many burdensome regulations from Washington were coming down and making it difficult for our small businesses to thrive and grow. Frankly, some of the taxes coming down from Washington were making it difficult. In the health care bill, there was a tax on medical device companies. New Hampshire has nearly 50 of those companies.…”