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Pathway to Job Creation Through a Simpler, Fairer Tax Code Act of 2012

Floor Speech

By: Rick Berg
By: Rick Berg
Date: Aug. 2, 2012
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

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Mr. BERG. I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to support this critical piece of legislation to stop the tax hike.

We have a choice to make here: We can support job creators like small business men, farmers, and ranchers that have made North Dakota's economy so strong, or we can abandon them and allow our Nation to go over the so-called ``fiscal cliff.''

I have to remind my friends on the other side, this is something we talked about in a recent Ways and Means hearing. Small businesses are not ``the wealthy.'' They are not pocketing huge profits. They are trying to grow their businesses by reinvesting back into their business. That's what's creating jobs.

At a time like this, we need to create jobs. We can't afford the Democrat plan which will increase taxes and decrease over 700,000 jobs. We need stability. We need certainty. And we need to pass this legislation so we can provide stability and certainty to our job creators until we complete comprehensive tax review.

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