Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. After 12 years of Republican rule, our tax code is riddled with loopholes. The small businesses on Main Street, the families that are struggling to get by with both spouses as wage earners, they all continue to shoulder a much heavier tax burden proportionately than the giant multinationals that operate around the world, that have operated here in Washington to lobby their way into one bit of special treatment after another. And many of these loopholes serve only to encourage multinationals to invest overseas instead of investing here at home to create American jobs. For some of them, their number one export is the export of American jobs instead of creating things here in America that we can then export to the world. This particular bill promotes jobs in America in two ways. First, it recognizes that there is important work that needs to be done here in America, hard work that is worth doing. In Austin, Texas, Build America Bonds were used to build a police substation, to build a public safety training facility, public facilities that we need to protect our neighborhoods, built by private contractors, putting food on the table of private employees. This bill would encourage more of the same for America. Second, this bill represents the next step in a long-standing effort that I've been a part of to crack down on multinational corporations that get Federal tax breaks only to ship their jobs offshore.…”