Ralph Hall: “I believe, though, that we may be starting at the wrong level, we may be starting up here, when we really ought to be…”

“I believe, though, that we may be starting at the wrong level, we may be starting up here, when we really ought to be starting in our precincts and in our counties in our States at home. If we only close the gap today, or if we come close to closing the gap, or whatever votes we get today, we are going to count them for next year; and we are going to be in there trying to get it to emanate from the grassroots. Because I think if we get the grass-roots people and ask them the question, do they think it ought to be a little bit tougher to vote taxes on hardworking Americans, I think about all of them would say, absolutely yes. It has also been suggested that this was politics. Everything we do up here has some politics to it. I would always say to my colleagues that it is not bad politics to be telling hardworking Americans that we are going to make it a little tougher to tax them.”