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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
- Choking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state of our state needs serious attention.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.
- Business Leaders
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- Nov 07, 2020
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020