this last week, I spent most of the week driving some 2,200 miles across my State of South Dakota. I talked to farmers, ranchers, small business people, and a whole lot of just hard-working Americans. They did not want to hear the same old overused trite platitudes about tax cuts for the rich. They wanted to know what we are going to do to enable them to keep their families and their small businesses and what we are going to do to give them more control over their economic future. These are real people with real-world concerns, and they want real-world, honest answers, not the same old trite platitudes. We want to bring tax relief that will improve the quality of life for all hard-working Americans who pay taxes and make Government smaller.
John Thune: “this last week, I spent most of the week driving some 2,200 miles across my State of South Dakota. I talked to farmers…”
On the recordJuly 8, 1997
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Discussing tax relief and economic concerns during a speech in South Dakota.
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