Thomas Daschle: “The basics are that we want to provide as much help to middle-class families as we can. We want to provide as much…”

“The basics are that we want to provide as much help to middle-class families as we can. We want to provide as much growth and opportunity for expansion to startup companies, to companies that really need the help as we can. Our view is that those companies that are in the multi-multibillion-dollar category, multinational companies that have extraordinary assets ought to be viewed differently than those companies that are just beginning, those startup companies that need all the help they can get to be able to survive and compete. We want to help those. We realize that our resources are not unlimited. So if they are not unlimited, we have to target the best we can those companies that indeed need the greatest degree of assistance. We provide that in capital gains. We provide that in a number of investment incentives that allow those companies the opportunity to do all the things that they can to be competitive, be the next Microsoft or the next IBM.”