Roger Williams

I guarantee you that the support you need to make these drastic changes to international tax law do not exist.

To hire a compliance officer, does nothing for me; it does not help.

One study estimated the true cost to be around $202 billion of regulations, and 130 million manhours to deal with these regulations.

Main Street America has been hammered, and I am Main Street America. I am in the car business.

If we legislate away overdraft fees, some private sector participants will simply block these transactions.

The market is taking care of the issue without government intervention.

We know the CFPB is always right, so thank you for that.

Picking winners and losers is not good. Even competition does work.

Last month, Biden signed an executive officer mandating project labor agreements on federal construction contracts exceeding $35 million.

Instead of creating opportunities for all businesses, President Biden is pushing government mandates that favor big labor.

The Biden administration continues to show their lack of understanding for the real issues American small businesses are facing.

Competition is key in anything. We have competition among the private sector.

Imagine the IRS acting as an appraiser and assigning a taxable value on a variety of illiquid assets.

A few bad actors should not be used to label the entire appraisal industry as racist.

U.S. owned and operated. Absolutely.

Sure. I would probably argue that small businesses are more likely to do things in the U.S.

I think that is what the agencies do. So, the agencies are evaluated on commercialization potential.

My experience at the Navy would argue against caps because we are looking to have the best technology available to address a need.

I believe that SBIR and STTR can really accelerate economic development in areas that are underserved.

I have not seen any of those affect what we do. The barriers that startups talk about are barriers that have been in place for a long time.

Well, there is Congress. We report it to Congress.

It is a minimum floor.

It is in the law and it is up to Congress to determine those levels.

Demographics are measured from the proposals and awards made and we even are now moving to breaking down that in SAM to really understand because the challenges of an African American are different than an Asian American.

When I was at Navy they did pretty much all our contracting and we went to a central single source of contracting.