James Whittier Parker: “I must tell the gentleman the best social program in the world that has ever been invented is a good job, and one of the…”

“I must tell the gentleman the best social program in the world that has ever been invented is a good job, and one of the problems we have got in this country: When we penalize companies, when we penalize small business so that they cannot provide those jobs, we are hurting every worker in this Nation, because once you hurt one, it spreads like a disease, it hurts everybody; because if you are penalizing one small business out there, you can bet your bottom dollar that other small businesses are hurting too. Now you know we talk about the tax load that we have in this country. Right now we pay between 38 and 40 cents out of every dollar that every worker in this country makes on average for Federal, State and local taxes. Now when you add the regulations, onerous regulation, that the Federal Government has put on a lot of these companies, you can add another 10 to 12 percent on top of that. So all of a sudden people are taking home 50 cents out of every dollar they make. Now that is sad in and of itself, but we have turned this thing around. I feel very good about what we, as the Republican Party, have done and the direction that this country is now going. I mean we even have the liberals talking about tax cuts. I find that fascinating. I do not believe that some of them believe what they are saying, but I like the fact that they are saying it. Whether they mean it or not is fine. I do not really care. What I want, I want to get the tax cuts there.…”