Jim DeMint: “Three percent, about half the whole sales tax in South Carolina just to collect it.”

Which is a trillion dollars over ten years. I mean, that is real money.

We've got to determine what we're going to do about it. A missile defense is going to be a key.

We have constricted credit to such a degree that local banks do not have the flexibility to deal with their local economies.

But isn't that putting them at a disadvantage? They're actually paying more tax now than brick and mortars.