In order to be a viable statewide candidate, you have to be able to raise money so you can get your message out. And that is separate and distinct from what happens during session.

This year we're debating about what taxes we're going to cut, not whether we're going to have any tax cuts.

I think half a billion dollars is still a significant amount of money. Citizens pay attention to how much their property taxes are, particularly when your property (value) is going up pretty dramatically.

If the government sends you a bill for $200 and you have to pay it, it's a tax.

People work hard for the money that they send here. We're going to save for the future, but we also need to send some of the money back to the people who sent it to us.