Political Quotes

“We are telling to 50 States and multiple local jurisdictions that their legal authority to establish what is the appropriate fiscal policy for their citizens is going to be preempted. We are telling them for this purpose that they will be precluded from exercising a judgment that they might otherwise feel is in the interest of their residents and citizens. We are doing this in order to provide a pause, a time-out, a brief period in which to sort out the application of public policy, particularly as it relates to tax policy, and the new technology of the Internet. I think that we ought to accept the fact that the presumption should be that that preemption of our brethren at the State and local level should be respectfully as brief as possible. We should not easily or excessively indulge in this kind of behavior, particularly when the consequences of this behavior are so obvious and perverse.”