Ted Poe: “The number of new unemployment benefit claims jumped last week to 496,000 Americans. More people out of work, more…”

“The number of new unemployment benefit claims jumped last week to 496,000 Americans. More people out of work, more people looking for those promised jobs. Meanwhile, a year later, we're bogged down debating the administration's $1 trillion government-run health care bill, a government-created problem that most Americans flatly reject. Our priorities should be getting people back to work. Get government off the back of small businesses, the real creator of jobs. But the talk around town is to raise taxes. John Marshall said, ``An unlimited power to tax involves the power to destroy. There is a limit beyond which no institution and no person can bear taxation.'' Tax hikes for more Federal boondoggles won't create any jobs. Leave money in the hands of the people who earned it, the American public. Meanwhile, 15 million Americans are unemployed. And that's just the way it is.”