A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there until we replace all these jobs that have been lost.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

I have always been someone who wants to get it right. That started when I ran for school board. It's an avocation that's become a full-time job.

For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs--jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway.