25 Quotes by Michael Franc

They'd (lawmakers) would like to get a lot of these things out of the way before the end of the year.

It's going to push some people who are at the margins of being able to afford it into the consumer category.

They did a lot of tier-two issues that were important to certain constituencies but that, in and of themselves, were not of any great magnitude. It was not a year for, obviously, enactment or even action on tier-one issues.

In the short run, you have to have higher taxes to pay for it. Or in the long run, you run up a larger debt and at some point, the debt becomes large enough that it requires tax increases to pay off the debt. No matter how you look at the trend lines, you can't grow your way out of it.

He sees this as an opportunity to revamp the entire relationship of the federal government to the region,

If government continues to do things with enormous effects on business, they'll just find another way to protect their interests. There's too much at stake to walk away.

The legislative calendar is shorter and, almost by definition in an election year, tempers will be shorter, too.