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Harry Truman said it's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Once again, I have signed onto legislation authored by Heath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat. I'm not interested in who gets credit for helping stop illegal immigration, I just want it stopped.
The filing deadline for federal taxes passed on Thursday. Every year it reminds me of the need for fundamental tax reform. We need a tax code that is simple, fair and promotes economic growth. While I am a co-sponsor of the Fair Tax, I would support any tax reform plan that meets those goals. We need to make April 15th, just another day.
Legislation:
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It's a lesson that history teachers like to drill into their students. However, in Congress, bad ideas are rarely subjected to a historical review.
The old adage of putting the ‘cart before the horse' seems pretty relevant to the on-going debate about immigration reform in Congress. No plan for immigration reform will work until we control the border. The fact is though; we don't control our own borders.
Springtime is finally starting to arrive in Missouri. We are now about a week away from the opening of a new baseball season.
These past two weeks in Washington have focused greatly on health care. After more than a year of debate on how to improve our health care system, this past Sunday, Nancy Pelosi passed her government takeover of health care. This bill ignores the needs of Americans and instead it is full of bad ideas, sky-high taxes, and impossible regulations and mandates.
One of the biggest complaints that I hear from small businesses is the lack of affordable healthcare insurance for their employees. In many cases, employers want to provide health insurance for their employees, but simply cannot afford the cost. These small businesses tell me that in order to keep good employees, they must have competitive benefits.
Abraham Lincoln has many famous sayings, including "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." That doesn't prevent Washington from trying.
Washington this week continued to ignore the needs of Americans and instead focused on more spending. Instead of piling more red tape and unnecessary taxes on Americans, Congress needs to help keep our economy healthy. Common sense economic and tax policies will help all businesses succeed.
The President last week announced that the time for debate had ended on his healthcare bill. After a year of debate, a bipartisan summit and numerous ideas to choose from, you would think there would be a new bipartisan bill ready to pass.