We Do Not Accept That Ours Will

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

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.

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.

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.'

No Feature Of The Obama Presidency Has Been Sadder Than Its Constant Efforts To Divide Us, To Curry Favor With Some Americans By Castigating Others.