Political Quotes

“I wish I could convince my friend from Michigan--and she is my friend--about the $4,000 per family that would come from the pro-growth policies here, many of which she supports. She wants her businesses to be competitive, and they are not now. It is an outrage that our companies have to use a tax code that puts the workers in those companies in a disadvantageous position every day. It is not just about inversions, and it is not just about companies getting taken over. By the way, last year, three times as many American companies were taken over by foreign companies as the other way around. Over the last 13 years, 4,700 companies became foreign companies that would today be U.S. companies if this tax bill had been in place. I mean, it is happening. They are taking their jobs and investments with them when they go overseas. We have to fix that problem. It has been bipartisan. There has never been a partisan issue about that. That is where a lot of that $4,000 comes from. It comes from the fact that you are going to have more investment and therefore higher productivity, and workers are going to have a chance to see higher wages. The Congressional Budget Office did a study in which they showed that 70 percent of the benefit of lowering the business rate goes to workers in terms of higher wages and higher benefits. Others say it is less than that. Others say it is more than that.…”