Political Quotes

“They call it the Better Off Budget, but I am wondering who is really better off? It is certainly not the small business woman from California who, under this plan, maybe she is earning $260,000 a year--not a billionaire and millionaire like they claim--and she will see her combined taxes, Federal taxes and State taxes, exceed 51 percent. She is certainly not better off. How about the people she might have hired if she didn't have this tax increase? Well, they are not better off. Or maybe the people who work for her now who can't get a raise because she now is extended here? They are not better off. It is certainly not the businessowner who might provide a piece of equipment that this small business woman might buy but she no longer can afford. He is no longer better off. I can't see anybody who is better off under this system. Here I would ask--and I want to talk a little bit about freedom in this last minute. Imagine this same businesswoman getting up on January 1, going to work and working all of January. She gets her paycheck, and it is zero because 100 percent was sent to Washington, D.C. she does it again in February, and it is zero because 100 percent gets sent to Washington, D.C. {time} 1645 She does it again in March and April and May, 100 percent of all her effort comes here. She doesn't get to keep a penny of it. All of the month of June, it all goes to government. This is not a free person. Mr.…”