So I first want to thank you for all the efforts that you and your administration has done on behalf of veterans and also on behalf of small businesses.

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Tax cuts would be provided to employers hiring recent veterans or young workers, and to small businesses and corporations in one of the nation's highest taxed states.

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But the component parts -- cutting taxes for middle-class families, cutting taxes for small businesses that are hiring our veterans and hiring the long-term unemployed, putting teachers back in the classroom -- here in the state of Hawaii, you have a bunch of kids who are going to school four days a week because of budget problems.

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