Political Quotes

“I have been a small business owner for about 10 years. Like many of us, I am sure, I know many hundreds of small business owners across my district, the Lehigh valley of Pennsylvania. There is no question that small business is the critical engine of economic growth and the critical creator of jobs. It is also, I would point out, an amazing source of the charitable contributions in our communities, of volunteer work that goes to improve the quality of life in our communities. It is a thrill to own a small business if you are fortunate enough to have a successful one. There is a great satisfaction in creating a business from scratch and employing people and seeing that become productive. But it is also an enormous challenge. There is a great deal of worry, whether you are going to make that payroll every Friday, whether you are going to have the funds to make that bank payment that is coming due next week, how are you going to figure out how to innovate and stay alive in business. What we in government ought to be doing is we ought to be finding ways to reduce the obstacles that we impose on the small businesspeople of America who achieve this great success. The two big things we can do is we can relieve the tax burden, the enormous tax burden that small business owners contend with every day. We can support the President's proposal and in fact expand on the President's proposal for tax relief and do wonders for small business.”