Some Quality Time With Pat Toomey. Capitol Ideas with John L. Micek (blog)
Good Morning, Fellow Seekers.This story was supposed to run in the Big Paper this morning, but it was held for reasons of space. Luckily, we can share it with you here.
It's A Bright And Sunny Afternoon ...
... on Tax Day and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Pat
Toomey is talking about the three things that he dislikes more than anything else: excessive government spending, high taxes, and, also, high taxes.
Arrayed around him at a table at a coffeeshop in suburban Harrisburg are nine small businessowners. And the agreement with Toomey' s small government gospel is enthusiastic.
"It's absurdly complicated," Toomey says of the labyrinthine U.S. tax code. "Companies spend almost as much on compliance as they do paying it. We tolerate the second-highest corporate tax